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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
Though I'm not a guru by anyone's standards, I will have a go at sorting the linux version of Rec&Play.
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Though I'm not a guru by anyone's standards, I will have a go at sorting the linux version of Rec&Play.
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
For some reason the 0xFF, 0xFF is being written out as 377 and this translates to 0x01 (SUMP RUN) when it is sent to the serial port.
Looks like the compiler is not handling xFF correctly. I wonder what happens if you change that to 0xFF?[/quote]
Ahem, 377 is just 0xFF in octal ;-)
[quote author="JTR"]
It does seem that the problem is a mis-porting of the C compiler's serial_read library function (and/or the USB CDC driver)
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I checked, serial_read is part of IRToyRecPlay, not the C library, and it's a quick and dirty port of a windows version by the looks of it. Its behaviour is to keep trying to receive the number of bytes it is asked to, until a time-out occurs. So calling it with sizeof(buf) does seem to be a bug, but the fact that it ends up receiving a bunch of garbage before it times out means that either the Irtoy is suffering from bad ir noise and interpreting that as data, or the CDC-ACM driver is making the garbage up.
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
This is extra strange before in all of it I never see the terminator 0xff 0xff, so it is like the data goes constantly.
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Yes, when close to an lcd screen or directly under fluorescent lighting there is so much IR noise that Irtoy will stream continuousy, without ever timing out. The led flashing continuously seems to rule out it being a driver artefact.
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USB Infrared Toy / Linux LIRC Driver - IR Toy v2 occasionally hangs up
dmesg:
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[33069.845890] tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 0.[/quote]
[33069.853002] tty_port_close_start: tty->count = 1 port count = 0.
This is due to annoying behaviour of the linux cdc acm driver. What happens is, if a device is streaming data when no user app has the corresponding acmx port open, the driver craps out with these messages. In the lirc patch, I tried to mitigate this by always going back to irman mode when closing the device, as the irtoy does not stream so much data in that mode. The real fix would have to be done in the linux cdc driver, but from what I gather it is not considered a bug in the driver, but in the device that is streaming unsollicited data. Go figure...
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
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sleep(2); // linux: sleep for 2 secsrecompile, and then test again using recording, eg something like
#endif
//<-------- add next line ---------->
serial_write( fd, "xFFxFFx00x00x00x00x00", 7);
//---------- end of change --------->
serial_close(fd);
FREE(param_port);
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./irtoy -d /dev/ttyACM0 -f test -r
and see if the problem goes away at least when recording?
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
usb 1-3.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 1-3.1: device descriptor read/64, error -71
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Ouch that´s nasty. So just to confirm, when you plug it in, it always works? It will only fail after some send/receive activity has taken place? Enumeration looks normal when you plug it in and then do dmesg | grep -i usb ?
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Issue about IrToy2 / Linux / IRToyRecPlay
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USB Infrared Toy / Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
Can you post the conf files, both the raw one and the short one that does not work? I would like to compare the two and try to see what's going on.
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USB Infrared Toy / Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
Great!
[quote author="const"]
irrecord does two different conf files for the same remote panel. First big in raw mode and it work correct.
Second small, with it, two of the 21 buttons do not work and the rest give multiple commands on one click.[/quote]
That kind of problem with irrecord happens from time to time, mainly due to the enormous amount of guesswork irrecord does in "cooked" mode. However, I would like to make sure it's not a driver issue, can you let us know what remote control you used? Also, check the lirc website for conf files for your remote.
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
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~ $ sudo service lirc start[/quote]
lirc: unrecognized service
It's lircd, so do
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~ $ sudo service lircd start
Be careful though, it could start the lircd from the distribution that probably still is lurking in /usr/local/sbin. For a quick test, you can just do
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lircd RemoteXXX.conf
making sure you execute the lircd you compiled, not the one from your distribution. After starting lircd, test with irw to see if it recognizes your remote.
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USB Infrared Toy / Irtoy Lirc (Linux) driver
But now I have two problem.
First:
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~ $ sudo service lirc start
lirc: unrecognized service
Second:
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~ $ irrecord -n -H usb_irtoy -d /dev/ttyACM0 RemoteXXX.conf[/quote]
Driver `usb_irtoy' not supported.
Supported drivers:
default
Ok, let's make sure it's not finding the lirc version that came with your distribution before the one you compiled. Do
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which irrecord
and let us know what it says.
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USB Infrared Toy / Re: USB IRToy v2 transmits with v15 firmware but fails with
I have attached the conf file for another remote that I tried. This one is the remote of a LG Flatron TV.[/quote]
I happen to own an LG Flatron, and was able to control it with your conf file, Lirc with the irtoy driver and V20 firmware.
I am wondering, are you sure you have the latest (release) version of the V20 fw loaded? I think there have been some release candidates that had problems transmitting.