Evil Barney wrote:
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.
That's interesting. I just tried last night moving my main frontend
from RH9 with a streamzap to FC4 and everything was fine until I started
using the remote and it would lock the box up hard after about 10-15
remote button presses. I was using the same configuration files from my
existing installation and even tried backing down to 0.7.1 with the same
results...
Kevin
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