LIRC - Linux Infared Remote Control

[Juergen Lock]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:30:35PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:37:50AM +0100, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:13:35 +0100, Lars Engels wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 08:22:23PM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> > >> Putting 'infrared' into the search box here:
> > >>  http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
> > >> fails to list this port, because its description is spelled wrong.
> 
> Ooops, noted. :)
> 
> > >> Daniel no longer maintains this. So I suppose the listing, long
> > >> description, and Makefile contacts should be cut over to ports at .
> > >> Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Probably nox@ should step up? :)
> > 
> > Yeah, don't worry. nox@ is working on updating the lirc port:
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2011-February/011636.html
> 
>  Yes, and I have now made the update install docs and example remotes
> too:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/lirc/lirc-0.9.0p1_3.patch
> 
>  Committing the update to ports will have to wait until after the
> end of the slush tho I think since the liblirc_client.so shilb
> version was bumped and there a few ports that depend on the old
> version that will have to be updated as well.
> 
>  In other news, the usb ftdi support,
> 
> 	http://www.huitsing.nl/irftdi/
> 
> has been tested now, and it required the same workaround I had to
> do for this mceusb device I tested here (making hw_default.c delay
> trailing spaces until before the next pulse to get irrecord working),
> that patch already was in my port update last time but for the benefit
> of non-FreeBSD lirc users I've also put it here:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/dvb/lirc/patch-daemons%3a%3ahw_default.c.txt

And now the lirc update is in, i.e. I just committed it:

	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-February/212544.html

 Enjoy, :)
	Juergen