[mythtv-users] Foiled by lirc - yet again

[Nick Morrott]

On 26/03/2008, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have no direct experience with this remote. However, if the remote
>  >  is being autodetected as an input device, you probably want (if not
>  >  already) to start irrecord and then lircd using the
>  >  '--driver=/dev/input' option and specify the correct device
>  >  (/dev/input/eventX).
>  >
> Doesn't lircd had to be stopped before running irrecord? The problem
>  I'm having is that I can't create a lircd.conf file to run lircd with
>  because irrecord keeps bombing out because it's being detected as a
>  keyboard rather than what you'd normally get from a remote.

Per the LIRC docs, run irrecord to generate a lircd.conf file, and
*then* run lircd to use that configuration. irrecord does not want to
be run when lircd is already running, but they would both need to be
run with the --driver and --device options to make sure they are both
connecting to the correct device.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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