Orange Pi Zero, failed to start lirc.service

[enjoyneering]

Hi,

 

I have ARMBIAN 5.60 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.78-sunx and installed IR support via armbian-config. Followed LIRC setup procedure for old Linux8 (jessie) and nothing works 

 

sudo evtest command doesn't show any available devices

sudo service lirc start returns Failed to start lirc.service: Unit lirc.service not found.

 

Any advise?

[MacBreaker]

Try,

 

sudo service lircd start

 

That should work...

[enjoyneering]

Thank you. Started lircd no problem. But...

 

sudo evtest command doesn't show any available devices

sudo irw /dev/lircd returns "Cannot connect to socket /dev/lircd: No such file or directory"
 

[MacBreaker]

Strange,

 

run evtest as root, this works...

 

With sudo irw /dev/lircd i get the same result sa you.

[enjoyneering]

found. installed cir support via armbian-config. System -> Hardware -> cir

 

p.s. Stretch lirc 0.9.4 is included in the Debian package. The configuration is slightly different. The hardware.conf file is not supported, obsoleted by a new lirc_options.conf file and systemd unit definitions.