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Stuck with IR Toy v2 on Linux

The good news is that my IR Toy v2 gets successfully enumerated as /dev/ttyACM0 on Linux and I also managed to update its firmware to v22. When I execute screen `/dev/ttyACM0 115200` and type "s", "S01" appears and when I point my remote towards the IR Toy v2 and press a button the LED flickers and gibberish gets displayed on the screen.

The bad news is that when I execute `irtoy -d /dev/ttyACM0` it displays "Opening IR Toy on /dev/ttyACM0 at 115200bps..." and gets stuck there. Also, when I execute `irrecord -n -H irman -d /dev/ttyACM0 RemoteXXX.conf` it displays "Hold down an arbitrary button.", then I hold down a button, then it displays "irrecord: gap not found, can't continue" and gets stuck there.

Any ideas?

Re: Stuck with IR Toy v2 on Linux

Reply #1 –
Two comments:

1. You are obviously using the irman Lirc driver, which uses the 'toy in the IrMan emulation mode. However, since a few weeks, a native driver (by Peter Kooiman) is officially a part of Lirc (https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/m ... ns/irtoy.c), although not contained in a release yet. (I have even added a few lines there myself.) So you have to suck the Git code (including the rest of Lirc) and compile it yourself. 

2. Please try to learn the signals you want using the 'toy and IrScrutinizer. You can then, if desired, export it to Lirc format. IrScutinizer + IrToy make a very good IR learner, as opposed to Lirc.

Greets

Bengt