LibreElec 9.0 and Lirc drivers (irman)

Schrauber · January 1, 2019 at 10:29 PM

Hi,

I use an Atric IR-WakeupUSB remote receiver in my system. This worked fine with all versions up to the latest alpha of LE 9.0.

I needed to configure Lirc with driver irman. I was not able to get it working with kernel drivers. Only with lirc.

However, with LE 9.0 beta build it stopped working. This is because lirc does not have the irman driver. I found the libirman on the system. But lirc does not know this driver.

So what can I do about this?

Regards

**HiassofT** · January 1, 2019 at 10:58 PM

This is odd, lirc hasn't changed for quite a long time now.

Can you post your lirc_options.conf file and journalctl output both on the last working (alpha) build and the non-working build?

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journalctl -a | paste

so long,

Hias

Schrauber · January 2, 2019 at 2:23 PM

Realy strange. Did a fresh install, copied over my lircd.conf an lirc_options.conf and now it works. No idea why this happend.

JK1974 · July 3, 2019 at 9:49 AM

I also discovered a non-working Atric IR-WakeupUSB after some update and/or change of configuration around half a year ago and finally took the time yesterday (after having used a wireless keyboard in the last months) to have a closer look.

For your information: I use a dual-boot setup with LibreElec and Windows 10, using the latter one also for configuring the IR-Wakeup. Therefore, the IR-WakeupUSB basically works in Windows. Furthermore, since it is a dual-boot setup, I currently don´t have a "clean" LibreElec 9.0 installation but an upgrade setup from older LibreElec/OpenElec versions and want to avoid a full reinstallation if possible.

Using journalctl, I think I get a clear messages what´s going wrong (see also http://ix.io/1nzf) :

Code

Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: Driver `irman' not found or not loadable (wrong or missing -U/--plugindir?).
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: Available drivers:
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: accent
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: asusdh
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: atilibusb
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: atwf83
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: awlibusb
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: bte
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: bw6130
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: commandir
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: creative
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: creative_infracd
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: default
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: devinput
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: dfclibusb
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: dsp
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: dvico
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: ea65
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: file
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: ftdi
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: ftdix
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: girs
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: i2cuser
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: irlink
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: irtoy
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: livedrive_midi
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: livedrive_seq
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: logitech
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: macmini
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: mouseremote
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: mouseremote_ps2
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: mp3anywhere
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: mplay
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: mplay2
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: pcmak
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: pinsys
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: pixelview
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: samsung
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: sb0540
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: silitek
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: sonyir
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: srm7500libusb
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: tira
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: tira_raw
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: udp
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: uirt2
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: uirt2_raw
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: usb_uirt_raw
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: usbx
Jul 03 02:06:01 LibreELEC-WoZi lircd_helper[467]: zota

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Any hints on how to fix this?

**HiassofT** · July 3, 2019 at 1:34 PM

It looks like the irman driver went AWOL some time ago.

I found out why and PRed a bugfix for that: lirc: fix missing irman driver, include Debian patches by HiassofT · Pull Request #3641 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

If things go expected the fix should land in the next or next-but-one 9.2 beta version.

so long,

Hias

JK1974 · July 3, 2019 at 1:44 PM

HiassofT : Thank you very much for your fast support - gonna test the following betas as soon as they available.