Posts by wymand

Following the directions in the link above I finally got it to work.

I had many problems. I had my IR receiver connected to pin 18 and

had edited the modules file and the config.txt with that as the pin number.

WRONG: It uses the BCM number which is 24. Also I had followed an instruction

to list the entry as gpio-ir gpio_in_pin=24 I dropped the in so it is now

gpio-ir gpio_pin=24 finally ir-ctl -d /dev/lirc0 -r started showing the output of

the IR receiver.

It is a pity that so many out dated and totally wrong instructions exist.

Quoted from:[Stretch/Buster] Using LIRC with kernel 4.19.X and gpio-ir - Raspberry Pi Forums

Kernel 4.19 does not include lirc_dev, so it is recommended to use gpio-ir.
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=224931&start=50

However, the command "irrecord" included in lirc does not work with gpio-ir

No! I could not get /dev/lirc0 working on the Pi 4 until I changed the

/boot/config.txt from dtoverlay=lirc-rpi to dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=18

Now on to the next step:

/dev/lirc0 now shows but when I try sudo /etc/init.d/lircd stop (then) mode2 -d /dev/lirc0

I get nothing but I am still trying... for all I know I could have a bad remote.