/dev/lirc0 not appearing on RPi 2

[williamparry]

Hi,

I've been at this for several hours now and I'm looking to be pointed in the right direction for debugging.

I've been following this tutorial

http://mvartan.com/2014/11/25/controlli ... pberry-pi/

When I go to access /dev/lirc0 it's not there.

Set up

• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B V1.1
• Raspbian version 8 (jessie)
• LIRC installed

Debugging Notes

• /etc/lirc/hardware.conf is as per tutorial
• config.txt has

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  dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_in_pin=23,gpio_out_pin=22

  and

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  device_tree=

• /etc/modules has

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  snd-bcm2835
  i2c-dev
  
  lirc_dev
  lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=23 gpio_out_pin=22
  

• When I go

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  gpio readall

  it appears that all the modes are set to IN, but I can change pin 22 to OUT manually
• The IR Blaster differs from the one in the tutorial, it looks like this one
  
  and I'm ignoring the middle connector

Picture of set up



Here's some of the places I've tried so far to find out what's going on

• viewtopic.php?p=675658
• viewtopic.php?f=45&t=7798&start=100
• http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/qu ... -no-such-f
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1581528
• viewtopic.php?f=45&t=7798&start=50

Thanks

[-rst-]

What is the output if you do these:

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sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start

?

[DougieLawson]

Get rid of the

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device_tree=

line because that stops the essential device tree (dtparam) stuff from being loaded.

[Batboat]

Hi William

I have exactly the same problem......did you solve your problem or work around it?
Looking forward to hear from you

Cheers Nikolaj