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I've been trying to setup a IR transmitter for ages. I'm running a RasPi B with the latest Raspbian lite.

I installed lirc and added dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_out_pin=23,gpio_in_pin=22,gpio_in_pull=up,debug=1 to my config.txt.

I really don't care about the receiver, I only need to be able to transmit signals.

If I try to irsend I get a hardware does not support sending error.

Here is the dump from the lirc service status. I've been trying to solve the error but with no luck.

May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd[578]: lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Warning: Failed to initialize hardware
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd[578]: lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Notice: lircd(default) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Info: Cannot configure the rc device for /dev/lirc0
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Error: could not get file information for /dev/lirc0
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: default_init(): No such file or directory
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Warning: Failed to initialize hardware
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
May 26 00:48:39 raspberrypi lircd-0.9.4c[578]: Notice: accepted new client on /var/run/lirc/lircd
Lorenzo
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  • What have you connected, and where? – Milliways May 26 '19 at 00:31
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    NOTE in latest update to Raspbian "Name: lirc-rpi Info: This overlay has been deprecated and removed - see gpio-ir" – Milliways May 26 '19 at 00:40
  • @Milliways yeah, I read about that, however i can't find any clear docs, especially as I need a transmitter and not a receiver. Any link to docs/tutorials would be appreciated – Lorenzo May 26 '19 at 11:13
  • I connected an IR led to pin 23 with a transistor, tho I don't understand what kind of hardware error I could be getting – Lorenzo May 26 '19 at 11:15

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