[mythtv] Unusual path to lirc config file breaks lircrcd

[Tino Keitel]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 19:59:22 -0600, Chad wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > MythTV expects the lirc config file in ~/.mythtv/lircrc. All other
> > clients I know of use ~/.lircrc.
> >
> > There exists a useful daemon called lircrcd that syncs the current lirc
> > mode between clients. Otherwise it can happen that simulatous running
> > clients are in inconsistent modes.
> >
> > The lircrcd creates a socket to communicate with the other lircrcds.
> > The name of the socket is the name of the config file, with a 'd'
> > appended. So other clients will use ~/.lircrcd as the socket name, but
> > MythTV will use ~/.mythtv/lircrcd, so the lircrcd for MythTV can not
> > communicate with the other daemons.
> >
> > It will be nice if MythTV uses the same name for the lircrc file as the
> > other clients: ~/.lircrc. This way, lircrcd will work out of the box
> > with MythTV.
> >
> > I already patched my libmythui to use ~/.lircrc instead of
> > ~/.mythtv/lirc and it works like a charm.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tino
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Does a simple symlink not suffice?

Hum, I thought I tried a symlink, too, and it didn't work. That's why I
tweaked the location in the source.

But now I tried again and it seems to work. Thanks. :-)

Regards,
Tino