evilbarney at gmail
Sep 18, 2005, 6:26 PM
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Greg,
I've fought with my streamzap and myth for a long time. I was unable to get
it to work properly with FC3, but just now got it working with FC4. not sure
if this is what you need, but I could not find a howto like this anywhere,
so I will post it. maybe it will work for you, or someone else.
My steps--
1. followed Jarrod Guid for FC4 including doing the Yum for lirc dirvers.
when done, IRW will not work nor lircd start up (not even sure if this step
is needed)
2. Get kernel source for FC4. I did a "yum install kernel-devel" This
downloaded the lasted FC4 2.6 kernel source. note that I did already
upgraded the kernel with "yum upgrade" per jarrods before.
3. went and downloaded the lirc-0.7.2 source from lirc.org <http://lirc.org>.
unzipped it and changed into that directory
4. ran "./setup.sh" this opened up a shell gui install dialog box. inside
there, I choose "usb devices, then streamzap" not sure if that is the path,
but if you go under "other devices" or usb, you will find the one for
streamzap
5. then inside the same gui, I choose to save and run config
6. config ran with no errors. before I got the source, it would give me a no
source found error. note that some text talks about making symlinks to where
you kernel source lives if not found but installed. I did not have to do
this with FC4 and the yum kernel source install.
7. then, as prompted, I ran make, then when that was done, I ran "make
install" the compile ran without errors
8.. I then edited /etc/modprobe.conf. I added the last line of "alias
char-major-61 lirc_streamzap" I'm not sure if the install did that step for
me, but either way it needs to be there.
9. then I started up the licrd demaon by doing "/sbin/service lircd start" I
got one green "OK" sometimes to check, I will stop and start the service
again to make sure it shuts down right
10. under the lirc-0.7.2 install folder, I cd to the tools folder and ran
irw. can't remember if I had to chmod it to run first (chmod 755 irw if you
do). at that point, I could hit keys on the streamzap remote and see inputs
in the shell. I hit control C to exit
11. the last step was to add the lircrc config file to your home directories
so it works with mythtv. if you search this forum, there are good posts for
pre-built streamzap lircrc files. find one you like, download it and place
it in "/home/<user>/.mythtv/lircrc .. note that the file name for the config
is lircrc with no extensions. I also had to put the same config under
"/root/.mythtv/lircrc" because I run my frontend under root sometimes.
from there, it all works fine. I might need to change some of the settings
in lircrc, or put the config file in some other places so it works well with
mplayer, but looks like there are good postings here to help with that.
hope this helps.
-EB
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