Using an IR Remote with Volumio

[Overlord_Laharl]

@fm-maniac

Hi,

I followed sid_d’s tutorial and installed lirc with volumio1.51. No problems so far. Noe I updated to 1.55 and failed in getting it running.

I did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lirc

and lirc installed without error. But then I alreaqdy failed on the first step.
sudo modprobe lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=18 quit with
ERROR: could not inster ‘lirc_rpi’: no such device

Could any one advise on what I’m doing wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

BR

Michael

i got past that error by editing config.txt

nano /boot/config.txt

at the end of the file add the following line

dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

i dont konow if its required but i chose to reboot as well after this by running

reboot

the previous commands were entered using a root console
so if the comands dont work you need to add

sudo before each command
source https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/issues/3908