Irsend on RPi2 with OSMC

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Hi All!
I’m using raspberry PI as a media center and a universal remote for the home theater, which sends IR signals to the AV-receiver and TV. On raspberry PI 1 with raspbian all worked well.

Now I want to configure the same on raspberry PI 2 with OSMC version 4.1.3.2. The “lircd.conf” file I have downloaded from my RPi 1. When I try to send an IR signal, an error occurs:

sudo irsend SEND_ONCE Philips_PFL Power
irsend: timeout

There is “pin gpio_out_pin=10” set out in “/boot/config.txt”, because i’m using this pin. In fact, the same problem occurs when using the default configuration (pin 17).

Please, help! What i’m doing wrong?

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It looks like OSMC works differently from raspbian. I had the same problem and it was sorted by irsend -d /run/lirc/lircd-lirc0 SEND_ONCE “name of remote” “KEY_TO_BLAST”. If you try out the irsend -d /run/lirc/lircd-lirc0 LIST “” “” you should get back a list of remotes. However that doesn’t seem to be the only issue. I am going to try some other things mentioned in this page - http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Guide_to_Lirc_IR_Blasting. If you sort out before me let me know.

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I got this working using

irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircd-lirc0 SEND_ONCE “name of remote” “KEY_TO_BLAST”