Sunday, May 1, 2011

Working with LIRC on ubuntu LTS 10.04

I have gone through out the day. This is the only way i was able to setup my simple IR receiver on ubuntu.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1578375

use following script to load lirc and setup it

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#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/hblirc: Loading the Homebrew IR receiver (IT'S ALIVE!).
setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none
modprobe lirc_serial
modprobe lirc_dev
sleep 1
ln /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc
#start lircd for singerremote
lircd /etc/lirc/singerremote
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