IR Blaster with CentOS

[korstad]

IR Blaster with CentOS

I am trying to migrate from Window to Linux.

I went with CentOS and mostly followed bastafidli guide with some caveats due the fact I am using 64bit OS.

I have Sage up and running with a PVR-500 and a PVR-150. Everything is working like a charm to channel 99…

I have a cable box I need to control and this is where I am stuck. I also have a IR200L serial blaster. I have downloaded and compiled lirc-0.8.4a. It has created;
/dev/lirc
/dev/lirc0
/dev/lircd
/dev/lircm

I have done the ./setup.sh && make install and tried picking IR200L and tried again the Hauppauge driver during the lirc install. I can’t get sage to see/use these devices to control my cable box.

Thanks for any hints/advice!! I would really like to get this working since I am so close!

[korstad]

More info on my setup;

I went ahead and compiled a vanilla kernel 2.6.27.8 in my CentOS to get the newest support. I am using a 64bit OS, so I grabbed the jdk for 32 bit and added;

PATH=/opt/jdk1.6.0_11/bin:$PATH
export PATH

to my startsage file. Everything went great. I have a pvr-150 and pvr-500 card. It sees all three tuners (videos). I want to use the pvr-150 to connect to my cable box, tv tuner channel 3, and IR blast to the set top box. When I go into tuning option for video0 (the pvr-150) and select external cable or satellite receiver, I am presented with two options;
-DirectTV serial control (my set top box does not have a serial interface)
-Infrared Blaster (this is what I want to get working)

When I select Infrared Blaster, I am given a list of ports (0-9) and all of them say failed when selected.

Any advice on how to get this last step working? I have tried compiling the latest lird lirc-0.8.4a, even played around with lirc-0.8.5-CVS-pvr150. It is loading modules fine. What am I missing?

I also have a serial IR200L that I was using with the windows box. If this is a possible path…

Thanks!

[rz888951]

For Ubuntu I had to load the module i2c_dev. However, that was not enough. i2c_dev creates entries in /dev/i2c-x in Ubuntu. Sage seems to want them in /dev/i2c/x. So I had to create symlinks from /dev/i2c-x to /dev/i2c/x. Not sure if CentOS has similar /dev or not. I am using a PVR150 blaster with Directv. The /dev symlink will not persist after a reboot, therefore UDev rules are needed.