Unable to initialise lirc

[mosesmc52]

Hi,

I installed lirc on raspberry pie using the instructions from the readme page. lirc is not initializing. I get this error. Would you have any idea why this would be occurring?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "lirc.pyx", line 122, in lirc.init (lirc/lirc.c:1286)
lirc.InitError: Unable to initialise lirc (socket was -1 from C library).

[michaelarnauts]

Check if lirc is running. You can try irw to see if you get events there.

[nolton]

Hola, yo tengo el mismo problema. cuando pruebo con irw este funciona correctamente.

[cadavre]

@nolton haven't you notices everyone here writes in ENGLISH, dude? <_<

+1

[nolton]

@cadavre Lamento que debas esforzarte un poco más para leer lo que escribo, Amigo.

[lgcproductions]

Got the same issue as well. :(

[tompreston]

Try calling with verbose=True, like this:

lirc.init('myprog', verbose=True)

Also, can you show me the code where you call lirc.init() and your lirc config files: ~/.config/lircrc and /etc/lirc/lircrc

Any further details on this? I'm having the same issue. I've taken these steps on a Raspberry Pi:

1. sudo apt-get install lirc liblircclient-dev

2. Add these lines to /etc/modules? Didn't work?
   lirc_dev
   lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=14 gpio_out_pin=15

3. Modify this line in /boot/config.txt:
   dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_in_pin=14

4. Modify /etc/lirc/hardware.conf:
   LIRCD_ARGS=”–uinput –listen”
   DRIVER=”default”
   DEVICE=”/dev/lirc0″
   MODULES=”lirc_rpi”

5. Stop lirc:
   sudo /etc/init.d/lirc stop

6. Downloaded lircrd.conf from https://gist.github.com/pda/8252117 and place it in
   /etc/lirc/lircd.conf (for the Apple aluminum remote)

7. Edit ~/lircrc to have the following contents:

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_DOWN
config = KEY_DOWN
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_UP
config = KEY_UP
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_ENTER
config = KEY_ENTER
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_RIGHT
config = KEY_RIGHT
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_LEFT
config = KEY_LEFT
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_MENU
config = KEY_MENU
end

begin
prog = myprogram
button = KEY_PLAYPAUSE
config = KEY_PLAYPAUSE
end

8. Start lirc:
   sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start

9. sudo pip install python-lirc

10. In python running from home directory:
    import lirc
    sockid = lirc.init("myprogram", "lircrc")

This gives the error
lirc.InitError: Unable to initialise lirc (socket was -1 from C library).

I should add that I do see some blips of data piped out when I push buttons on the remote while running this command:
mode2 -d /dev/lirc0
So, I'm fairly certain that the hardware and remote are set up correctly.

[tompreston]

Since there's been no update from the issue creator I'm going to close this.

See also #28 (comment)