[mythtv-users] how to verify lirc native mode

Scott Petler scottp at sonic.net
Sat Apr 8 23:18:43 UTC 2006


I have a symbolic link between .lircrc and .mythtv/lircrc:

>ls -la .lir*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 scottp scottp 14 2006-04-08 16:35 .lircrc -> .mythtv/lircrc

Scott

Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>Scott Petler wrote:
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>>I'm having some difficulty getting mythfrontend to respond to my remote
>>using
>>lirc. 
>>debian 2.6.15.6 i686
>>mythtv-0.19
>>lirc 0.8.0
>>
>>I start up lircd and monitor the log file and can use irw and get the
>>following
>>messages in my lirc.log file:
>>
>>/usr/local/sbin/lircd -n -L /tmp/lirc.log
>>lircd: lircd(mceusb2) ready
>>lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>>lircd: removed client
>>lircd: accepted new client on /dev/lircd
>>lircd: removed client
>>lircd: caught signal
>>
>>Here is the output from irw for a few button pushes on my remote:
>>
>>  
>>    
>>
>>>irw
>>>    
>>>      
>>>
>>0000000000000001 00 Select myremote
>>0000000000000018 00 One myremote
>>0000000000000019 00 Two myremote
>>000000000000001a 00 Three myremote
>>
>>When I start mythfrontend and make sure it has keyboard focus (I can
>>scroll up and down on the menu items from the keyboard), I press
>>buttons on the remote and nada. 
>>
>>Shouldn't and "accepted new client" message appear on the lirc log file when
>>mythfrontend is started?  Or is it when a button is pressed?
>>
>>I "thought" I had compiled mythtv with the use lirc configuration option,
>>./configure gives
>>.
>>.
>># Input Support
>>Joystick menu    yes
>>lirc support      yes
>>Video4Linux sup. yes
>>.
>>.
>>
>>It seems like myth is not "really" using lirc natively, is there a way
>>to check this?
>>I've tried running myth using -D all and there is no indication that the
>>remote
>>is being detected.
>>
>>Anything else I can try?
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>Did you set up your ~/.mythtv/lircrc file?  Myth does not use the 
>standard ~/.lircrc file although many people will link the two to make 
>things easier.
>
>Kevin
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