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LIRC & irtoy: hardware does not support sending

Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:51 pm
by peter_b
Updating my existing IR setup - yet again (for the n-th time in 20 years...)

irToy hardware IR sender/receiver on Xubuntu 20.04.6, using lirc 0.10.1.
It works! 8) :D

Well, at first I got an error, when I tried this:

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$ irsend SEND_ONCE UniversumVCR power 
hardware does not support sending
[SOLUTION]
Edit the following lines in /etc/lircd_options.conf:

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driver          = default
device          = auto
Do *not* use the irtoy driver. I think that's only for the `/dev/ttyACM0` kernels.
Restart lircd service, and irsend (and the rest) really "just works":

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$ sudo systemctl restart lircd
My setup:
I'm using the "new" (kernel 5.15) lirc kernel modules/drivers and the default `apt install lirc` package.