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After installing on Raspberry lirc-0.10.1 according to this instruction (Setup IR Remote Control Using LIRC for the Raspberry PI (RPi)), when you try to send data from any config file, the irsend -d /dev/lirc0 SEND_ONCE devinput-32 KEY_POWER command displays a message:

do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: Connection refused
Cannot open socket /dev/lirc0: Connection refused

Devices /dev/lirc0 and /dev/lirc1 work (checked with ir-ctl). The transfer runs /dev/lirc0. Socket /var/run/lirc/lircd is writable and readable by everyone. Why can't irsend work?

Michail Gorlov
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Thou shalt not use /dev/lirc0 as an argument to irsend. irsend sends data to the lircd daemon, and the lircd daemon send (raw) data to /dev/lirc0.

So, irsend should send data to the socket where lircd listens, by default /var/run/lirc/lircd.

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Leamas, thank you very much! Dealt with the socket and the device. Confused by the old instructions for using lirc. I downloaded a good config file and ran irsend without specifying a socket and everything worked

irsend SEND_ONCE PHILIPS_15PF4121 KEY_POWER
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