[mythtv-users] Upgrade to .20, lirc stops working

[Andrew Davis]

Since I'm new to MythTV, as I'm reading your posts, I'm starting to 
wonder if my own remote/lirc issues aren't my h/w after all, but simply 
something to do with the .20 release... its the release I started with...

Dwight Morgan wrote:
> Are you sure the new .20 was compiled with the native lirc support option?
>  
> -Dwight
>
> >>> On 09/24/2006 at 10:12, in message 
> <006301c6dffc$9d7a52f0$0200a8c0 at upstairs>, stan<stanlist at cox.net> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Trey Thompson
> > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 9:27 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Upgrade to .20, lirc stops working
> >
> > Have you tried removing lirc and all it's components via yum?  Then
> > installing?
> >
> > >
> > > OK, this was a wholesale upgrade, including adding smp (a new Athlon
> > > X2). Worked great at .19 a few weeks ago, then had some issues so I
> > had
> > > it shut down for a while. Fired it up and upgraded this weekend and
> > > everything seems to be working except lirc. I don't think I changed
> > > anything from what was working before, but there is no response to
> > > remote commands. I'm using the Hauppage 350 ir connection, which has
> > > generally always worked in the past. Upgrades all done using yum.
> > >
> > > Checked
> > > 1. Physical connection. It's plugged into the Hauppage jack in the
> > back.
> > > 2. Module is loaded.
> > > 3. /etc/lircd.conf and /home/myth/.mythtv/lircrc exist and remain
> > > unchanged as near as i can tell. They still have the correct remote
> > info
> > > in them anyway.
> > > 4. lircd is running and /dev/lirc has the correct permissions.
> > > 5. dmesg shows the ivtv driver loaded, and shows the lirc module
> > loaded.
> > > No errors reported. Same in /var/log/messages.
> > > 6. irw starts and sits there like its supposed to, waiting
> > for input.
> > >
> > > The big changes here are myth .20, latest smp kernel for
> > FC4, and ivtv
> > > .7 (not sure what it was before, but it was much older). Is it not
> > > lirc_i2c anymore? Is there something else I have to load? I've been
> > over
> > > to the ivtv site, but can't find anything specific. A quick
> > search of
> > > this forum isn't turning anything up that seems to relate to my
> > > scenario. Any thoughts or helpful advice. I've fought with lirc
> > before,
> > > and always won. This time, I'm stumped. Thanks.
> > >
> > > -Pete
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> I fixed my lirc problem by fixing the end of line characters in my lircrc
> file.
>
> I keep the "hither and yon" type files for myth all together in an archive
> on a windows machine.  The lircrc file for my Hauppauge PVR350 is one of
> those files.  I don't know what did it (samba, or maybe I edited the files
> in windows with something), but the end of line characters in my 
> lircrc file
> were changed from the original unix LF to windows CRLF.
>
> The CRLF characters were apparently not acceptable to whatever was reading
> the lircrc file.  The fix was to run dos2unix on the lircrc file.
>
> --stan
>
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