{"id":1124,"date":"2010-01-02T18:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fbcs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2010-01-02T18:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:41:34","slug":"mythtv-vs-lircd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/mythtv-vs-lircd\/","title":{"rendered":"MythTV vs lircd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an IR receiver plugged in to the serial port, which works with minimyth, but lircd keeps saying<br \/>\n<code>Jan  2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[2516]: caught signal<br \/>\nJan  2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[2516]: closing '\/dev\/lirc0'<br \/>\nJan  2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: lircd(devinput) ready, using \/var\/run\/lirc\/lircd<br \/>\nJan  2 18:33:34 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: accepted new client on \/var\/run\/lirc\/lircd<br \/>\nJan  2 18:33:34 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: initializing '\/dev\/lirc0'<br \/>\nJan  2 18:33:34 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: can't get exclusive access to events coming from `\/dev\/lirc0' interface<\/code><br \/>\nso I followed the instructions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lirc.org\/html\/devinput.html\">http:\/\/www.lirc.org\/html\/devinput.html<\/a> to make HAL ignore the IR device (in fact it will ignore any serial device) by creating the following in a new file called \/etc\/hal\/fdi\/preprobe\/10-ignore-lirc.fdi:<br \/>\n<code><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><br \/>\n<!-- CD 2\/1\/10 - adapted from http:\/\/www.lirc.org\/html\/devinput.html --><br \/>\n<!-- Stop HAL using lirc device - let lircd have it --><br \/>\n<deviceinfo version=\"0.2\"><br \/>\n<device><br \/>\n <match key=\"info.linux.driver\" contains_ncase=\"lirc_serial\"><br \/>\n    <merge key=\"info.ignore\" type=\"bool\">true<\/merge><br \/>\n <\/match><br \/>\n<\/device><br \/>\n<\/deviceinfo><\/code> (after getting clues about what key to use from <code>lshal<\/code>).<br \/>\nRestarting hal and running lshal confirms that HAL is now ignoring the IR device.<br \/>\nRestarting lirc &#8230; gives the same result as before.  It still doesn&#8217;t have exclusive access to \/dev\/lirc0.  Even after a reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got an IR receiver plugged in to the serial port, which works with minimyth, but lircd keeps saying Jan 2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[2516]: caught signal Jan 2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[2516]: closing &#8216;\/dev\/lirc0&#8217; Jan 2 18:33:32 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: lircd(devinput) ready, using \/var\/run\/lirc\/lircd Jan 2 18:33:34 theboxhd lircd-0.8.6[3144]: accepted new client on \/var\/run\/lirc\/lircd Jan 2 18:33:34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,29],"tags":[30,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.fbcs.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}