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[solved] pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - HagbardC - 2nd Feb, 2014 05:59 AM
Hello all,
first of all you can be shure I googled and searched all ressources I could find and also had a lot of support from the pilight forum and curlymo already but unfortunately I still run into problems.
The story in short:
I try to make my RasPi able to receive IR-Signals and on these should switch radio controlled plugs with pilight activated by these IR-Signals.
First attempts on Raspbian failed and I was advised by curlymo to use XBIAN because there was an lirc_rp1 module to use.
I intalled XBIAN and started with getting lirc to run and it worked as a charme ... received and identified my signals as needed.
Now, to get pilight running I installed it and switched it to module-mode by entering to settings.json
"hw-mode": "module",
"hw-socket": "/dev/lirc1"
and enabled lirc_rp1 in etc/modules
Now the RasPi freezes at start.
On ssh with putty I can enter the user and after entering password the putty session also freezes.
When connecting to my TV I see this:
XBian GNU/Linux 7 xbian tty1
xbian login: [ 22.173770] Unable to handle kernel request at virtual address bf00b0e8
[ 22.173936] pgd = d620c000
[ 22.173998] [bf00b0e8] *pgd=16e44811, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
[ 22.174144] Internal error: 0ops: 7 [#1] ARM
[ 22.174225] Modules linked in: uinput zram© frandomlirc_rpi© lirc_dev
[ 22.174416] CPU: 0 PID: 912 Comm: pilight-daemon Tainted: G C 3.10.12 #61
....
and have no control via Keyboard.
(there's many more to follow, but because I have no way to copy I had to write it down by hand)
I could reach the machine by "WinSCP" and changed the settings.json back. After that the RasPi boots as usual.
Just to make sure all hardware is working I checked both either way and the IR-Receiver as single with lirc is working and the other way round when disablng lirc and running pilight as single my radio-controlled plugs react as they should.
Could please anyone bring me into the right direction to make my plan work?
Thank you in advance.
Haggi
RE: pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - CurlyMo - 2nd Feb, 2014 08:51 AM
Conclusion, somehow the lirc_rp1 kernel module is broken.
RE: pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - HagbardC - 2nd Feb, 2014 09:16 AM
(2nd Feb, 2014 08:51 AM)CurlyMo Wrote: Conclusion, somehow the lirc_rp1 kernel module is broken.
... and what can I do now?
Re: pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - CurlyMo - 2nd Feb, 2014 07:38 PM
Wait for mk01 to react.
RE: pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - HagbardC - 2nd Feb, 2014 08:39 PM
Hi!
It seems pilight wasn't the right choice for my problem so I got up early this sunday morning and started from scratch.
I finally found a solution which is called rcswitch-pi.
So I went back to wheezy and everything is running now.
As this is not related to xbian anymore I think it is not adequate to post my how-to here.
So ... thank you for your support and good bye!
RE: [solved] pilight( to send) and lirc (to receive) - CurlyMo - 3rd Feb, 2014 12:52 AM
You could also have used the lirc_rpi module for lirc and the gpio hardware mode for pilight.