LIRC guide for FreeBSD

[Joe Auty]

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Andrew Milton wrote:
> +-------[ Torfinn Ingolfsen ]----------------------
> | On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:50:42 -0400
> | Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
> |
> | > The piece I'm missing is getting LIRC listening on a device node so
> | > that it can communicate with my IR Blaster connected to my serial
> | > port.
> |
> | I *think* that the problem is related to the fact that IR Blasters are
> | using the serial port in a non-standard way.
> | Instead of using the Tx signal to transmit data, they are using the DTR
> | signal. This page seems to support that view:
> | http://www.lirc.org/transmitters.html
> |
> | Thus, you need a special driver for the serial port which allows it to
> | work in this way. It is probably a year or two since I looked at it,
> | but the problem then was that LIRC's "driver" for serial ports was
> | totally Linux-specific, not very clean code, and not easy to port over
> | to FreeBSD. So nobody did make a LIRC serial port driver for FreeBSD .
>
> You don't really "send" or "receive" data to and from IR devices.
>
> You don't really need a driver, you just need to be able to strobe the
control
> line at the right frequency, in the right burst lengths. You can do it
from userland
> if you need to.
>
> The serial drivers for LIRC simply monitor the relevant pin and decode the
> incoming data. You can do this in userland, without needing a lirc kernel
> module to watch the serial port.
>
> The reason they use the control lines instead of tx/rx is that you
don't need
> to be concerned with baud settings on the port.

Cool, so this is just a matter of software configuration then? Any
ideas how I can setup LIRC to do this?

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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
joe at netmusician.org
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