OPi One LIRC GPIO

jungle_roger · April 30, 2016

Hi guys, I've been tring to get an IR LED to work with LIRC for a while now but just cant get it to work. I'm a bit of a noob with linux, so bear with me....

(using 5.05 desktop image)
I have been able to get a receiver working thanks to the stickied tutorial. Although only when running lircd manually with driver and device options,
I've setup hardware.conf but i think the /etc/init.d/lirc script overrides that.

Anyway its the sending using gpio that i need and the closest i've come is with the LIRC GPIO kernel module from here. As it compiles, loads and shows that the gpio pin has been allocated using:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio

GPIOs 0-383, platform/sunxi-pinctrl, sunxi-pinctrl:
 gpio-15  (red_led             ) out hi
 gpio-16  (?                   ) out lo
 gpio-18  (gpio_remoteIRQ      ) out lo
 gpio-354 (?                   ) out hi
 gpio-362 (green_led           ) out lo

And when I run lircd manually with the new /dev/lirc1 device i can run irsend commands (no error saying it doesn't support it) but it's not activating the led (have tested with ir and white leds)

any ideas??

Thanks
Jungle