[mythtv-users] MythTV isn't seeing my IRC events
William Munson
william_munson at bellsouth.net
Sat Sep 22 23:56:48 UTC 2007
Jay Mallar wrote:
> Joe Ripley wrote:
>
>> On 9/22/07, Jay Mallar <jaymallar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> * Where does the lircrc file really go? (I'm using mythtv-0.20.2 built
>>> from scratch).
>>>
>>>
>> According to the source, the file is checked in two locations:
>> ~/.myth/lircrc
>> ~/.lircrc
>>
>> (mythmainwindow.cpp lines 59 and 61 from SVN trunk)
>>
>>
> Um - is that ~/.mythtv/lircrc instead of ~/.myth/lircrc?
>
> As I said, I'm using 0.20.2, not SVN. But I did check the code, it is:
>
> QString config_file = MythContext::GetConfDir() + "/lircrc";
>
> Which should be ~/.mythtv/lircrc, and it does exist:
>
> :ls -al ~/.mythtv/lircrc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mythtv 3.3K 2007-09-22 12:57 /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
>
>
>>> * Is there any way to debug what's happening here with the frontend?
>>> Nothing shows up in the system logs.
>>>
>>>
>> Make double-sure that Myth was successfully built with lirc support.
>> Do something like this to check:
>>
>> # ldd /usr/bin/mythfrontend |grep lirc
>> liblirc_client.so.0 => /usr/lib/liblirc_client.so.0 (0xb5e90000)
>>
>> Also do:
>>
>> # mythfrontend --version
>> Source code version : 14501M
>> SVN Branch : trunk
>> Library API version : 0.21.20070910-2
>> Network Protocol Version: 36
>> Options compiled in:
>> linux release using_oss using_backend using_dvb using_frontend
>> using_ivtv using_lirc using_lmsensors using_opengl_vsync
>> using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
>> using_xvmc using_xvmc_opengl using_bindings_perl using_opengl
>> using_xvmc_pbuffer
>>
>> Make sure you see 'using_lirc' in your compiled in options.
>>
>>
> :ldd /usr/local/bin/mythfrontend | grep lirc
> liblirc_client.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/liblirc_client.so.0
> (0x06399000)
>
> :mythfrontend --version
> Library API version : 0.20.20070821-1
> Source code version : exported
> SVN Branch : tags/release-0-20-2
> Options compiled in:
> linux release using_v4l using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_ivtv
> using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec using_freebox using_live using_lirc
> using_joystick_menu using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_frontend
> using_backend using_bindings_perl
>
> All looks good to me...
>
>
>
Try changing your path to search /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin. Perhaps
you are loading the wrong config.
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