Hi all,
I am building a stand alone dedicated media player for use in my camper van. Its based upon a salvaged laptop screen, a decoder board and a Pi Zero. Streaming wise it works surprisingly well.
However I need to get the GPIO IR remote working so that I don't have to buy a USB hub and I still have the USB port left free for memory stick
s or WIFI dongles. I have wired up my IR receiver and loaded up lirc-rpi overlay. irw produces no output at all, but mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 produces output. I attempted to useirrecord /storage/.config/lircd.conf
to generate a valid config file but after the first two stages which produce dots it doesn't seem to produce a config that produces useful output.
I am frustrated because I have previously managed to setup a pi-zero for a projector project using an IR-remote and LIRC and it worked fine - though this was a version around about 5 of Openelec.
All of the guides to LIRC seem to be outdated and from what I read from other people having similar issues, something has changed with LIRC between versions 6 and 7 of Libreelec.
i would prefer to use ir-keytables, but this also seems to have similar issues with ir-keytable -t producing no output at all.
dmesg produces this:
lirc_rpi: auto-detected active low receiver on GPIO pin 18
lirc_rpi lirc_rpi: lirc_dev: driver lirc_rpi registered at minor = 0
lirc_rpi: driver registered!
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 245
lirc_rpi: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
So what I know for certain is that IR is been detected, but it never gets translated into any useful output. I suspect that something is not right with Lirc-rpi and it needs attention.
Stephen
