Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:08:54 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LIRC guide for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070315080854.5232bb9b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <45F88A52.7000809@netmusician.org> References: <45F77267.9080403@netmusician.org> <20070314054117.GB6688@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7BADB2D8968E702424EAE969@ganymede.hub.org> <45F88A52.7000809@netmusician.org>
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:50:42 -0400 Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote: > The piece I'm missing is getting LIRC listening on a device node so > that it can communicate with my IR Blaster connected to my serial > port. I *think* that the problem is related to the fact that IR Blasters are using the serial port in a non-standard way. Instead of using the Tx signal to transmit data, they are using the DTR signal. This page seems to support that view: http://www.lirc.org/transmitters.html Thus, you need a special driver for the serial port which allows it to work in this way. It is probably a year or two since I looked at it, but the problem then was that LIRC's "driver" for serial ports was totally Linux-specific, not very clean code, and not easy to port over to FreeBSD. So nobody did make a LIRC serial port driver for FreeBSD . See also /usr/ports/comms/lirc/pkg-message So, either you need to write a "LIRC driver" for serial piorts under FreeBSD, or you need to get a "IR Blaster" type device that doesn't use the serial port, AND is spported both by FreeBSD and LIRC, if such devices exists. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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