Hi All,

I bought a RS232 Serial IR blaster from IRBlaster.info a while ago and I am now just starting to configure it with knoppmyth R5E50. I also have a Hauppage PVR250 Silver remote working with lirc at this time.

I tried running a script called send_power_new and then also calling irsend on the cmd line and both times I get the following error

"hardware does not not support sending"

I've been using my digital camera's lcd to check my other remotes so I have a good test device once I can get past this problem.

Do you all have any ideas?
I send similar email to Mike from IRBlaster.info as well.

Thanks,

John

Have you taken care of the serial port issues covered in http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13108 Known Change #8?

Since I upgraded to R5E50 awhile ago I forgot to back check that. I just added the group change and rebooted. That didn't fix it. Next I whacked my PS/2 mouse entry. Checking now...

Well all that did was lose my the mouse that's built into my keyboard...now surprise there is suppose.

ps aux | grep lirc
root 2650 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S 15:44 0:00 [lirc_dev]
root 2654 0.0 0.0 2716 592 ? Ss 15:44 0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0

ll /dev/lirc*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 61, 0 Apr 8 15:44 /dev/lirc0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 61, 1 Apr 8 15:44 /dev/lirc1
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 15:44 /dev/lircd

my /etc/irblaster/hardware.conf reads
IRBLASTER_SERIAL_PORT=COM1

/etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#arguments which will be used when launching lircd
LIRCD_ARGS=""

#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
START_LIRCMD=false

#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
LOAD_MODULES=true

# Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
DRIVER="default"
# If DEVICE is set to /dev/lirc and devfs is in use /dev/lirc/0 will be
# automatically used instead
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_i2c"

I'm abit confused as to the purpose of the /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc (remote commands). I thought those were up in the main /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

Happy Easter by the way.

John

Here's some more:

ps aux | grep irblaster
root 2885 0.0 0.3 5452 3256 ? Ss 16:14 0:00 /usr/sbin/irblasterd --driver=default --device=/dev/irblaster --pidfile=/var/run/irblasterd.pid --output=/dev/irblasterd /etc/irblaster/irblasterd.conf
root 3247 0.0 0.0 1648 564 ttyp0 S+ 16:16 0:00 grep irblaster
root@mythtv:/etc/irblaster# ll /dev/irblaster
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 61, 1 Apr 8 16:14 /dev/irblaster

Hmmm look at this...self infliced wound?

/var/log/syslog

Apr 8 16:19:29 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: error processing command: S END_ONCE blaster 0_2_KEY_POWER
Apr 8 16:19:29 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: hardware does not support s ending
Apr 8 16:19:29 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: removed client
Apr 8 16:19:30 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: accepted new client on /dev /lircd
Apr 8 16:19:30 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: error processing command: S END_ONCE blaster 1_2_KEY_POWER
Apr 8 16:19:30 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: hardware does not support s ending
Apr 8 16:19:30 mythtv lircd-0.8.1-CVS-pvr150[2652]: removed client

Have you seen these?
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9352&highlight=irblasterserialport
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14559&highlight=irblasterserialport

As you've probably heard for the millionth time...you da' man

its was the -d /dev/irblasterd option on the irsend

Thanks again this is much more fun than studying for Differential Equations exam on Monday.