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LIRC patch for Raspbian unsuccessful #34

Closed latomus closed 3 years ago

latomus commented 3 years ago

Hi Leon, I tried to apply the guidelines described here (https://github.com/AnaviTechnology/anavi-docs/blob/master/anavi-infrared-phat/anavi-infrared-phat.md#chapter-3-software).

When executing this commande "sudo apt install -y ./liblirc0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./liblircclient0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./lirc_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb", I received the following error messages.

pi@RPI-LIRC-RX:~/lirc-src/lirc-0.10.1 $ cd ~/lirc-src pi@RPI-LIRC-RX:~/lirc-src $ sudo apt install -y ./liblirc0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./liblircclient0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./lirc_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb Reading package lists... Done E: Unsupported file ./liblirc0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb given on commandline E: Unsupported file ./liblircclient0_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb given on commandline E: Unsupported file ./lirc_0.10.1-6.2~deb10u1_armhf.deb given on commandline

I tried on a RPI 3 B + and on a RPI 4 4 megs, with the latest version of the Raspberry OS (issued on 2021-03-04), after a fresh install.

I am wondering what I did wrong, since I mostly copied/pasted the command lines from you tutorial...

Thank you very much in advance for any suggestions that could come to your mind !

Best regards

Pierre Masson

leon-anavi commented 3 years ago

Hi @latomus,

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for reporting this issue. I've fixed it in the document. The LIRC version changed from 1.6.2 to 1.6.3 therefore the install command now should be:

sudo apt install -y ./liblirc0_0.10.1-6.3~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./liblircclient0_0.10.1-6.3~deb10u1_armhf.deb ./lirc_0.10.1-6.3~deb10u1_armhf.deb

Could you please try with the command above?

Thanks, Leon

latomus commented 3 years ago

Hi @leon-anavi,

Thank you very much for your swift reply.

I confirm that the revised version of the line command in question worked indeed successfully.

I still have some questions, that might be of interest to other users who are not advanced IT users :

    • why do we have to patch LIRC for Raspberry ?
    • will future versions of the module oblige us to re-run all these command lines or, on the contraty, is this patch stable, irregardless of future versions of the Raspberry OS ?

Best regards

Pierre

leon-anavi commented 3 years ago

Hi Pierre,

In 2019 lirc_rpi, the Linux kernel module provided with Raspbian before, was replaced with gpio-ir and gpio-ir-tx. Because of this the old way for setting up ANAVI Infrared pHAT was no longer working and LIRC required this manual patch which is from the posts by neuralassembly in the this Raspberry Pi forum thread.

This is a known issue and there is an open ticket in sourceforge about LIRC client with Raspberry Pi gpio kernel driver. LIRC is a very complex project with a lot of backward compatibility legacy for various devices. I am not sure if this patch that works perfectly well on Raspberry Pi will have any impact on other hardware. I am also not sure what are the plans of LIRC maintainers for it. I will happy to have a straight-forward installation of LIRC on Raspberry Pi OS but I am not sure when/if it is going to be fixed in future versions of the package as this is something out of my control.

Best regards, Leon

latomus commented 3 years ago

I had spotted all these elements while reviewing available information sources and posts on the various relevant websites. I had just not connected them into a comprehensive set of information so far and your last reply is very enlightning in this respect. Thanks a lot. Best regards P.

jkkataja commented 2 years ago

Hi,

old issue but figured I'd rather comment here than create a new one. After all, found this via Google myself also.

Just rebuild Pi4 with latest Pi OS lite 64bit

Raspberry Pi OS Lite Release date: April 4th 2022 System: 64-bit Kernel version: 5.15 Debian version: 11 (bullseye)

and noticed that I had to use the following command: sudo apt install -y ./liblirc0_0.10.1-6.3_arm64.deb ./liblircclient0_0.10.1-6.3_arm64.deb ./lirc_0.10.1-6.3_arm64.deb

Also in lirc_options.conf the plugindir needs to be following plugindir = /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/lirc/plugins but that most likely isn't an issue to a lot of people, I faced that since I had old options conf in my Ansible.

Cheers, Jere

nohajc commented 9 months ago

Hi, is it possible the lirc patch is no longer necessary? According to the ticket (which has been closed last year), a similar patch has been applied. https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/359/

leon-anavi commented 9 months ago

Hi, is it possible the lirc patch is no longer necessary? According to the ticket (which has been closed last year), a similar patch has been applied. https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/tickets/359/

Yes, it is possible if Raspberry Pi OS nowadays provides LIRC version with the mentioned patch. I will have to check.