[mythtv-users] Upgraded Mythbox from Fedora10 to Fedora12 remote control works partially

OM Ugarcina mo.ucina at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 04:46:03 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
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> O&M Ugarcina wrote:
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>> Hello Guys,
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>> I have just upgraded my Mythbox (myth .22) based on a Zalman Hd-160 case , asus p5b motherboard , from fedora 10 to fedora 12 . The remote control is now partially working , that is to say full control over Myth , but no control over external applications such as Mplayer Xine or VLC . All those applications were controllable under fedora 10 . Now, my box does not use lirc per say , it uses irserver software from irtrans to run the lcd as well as the ir remote . As far as I understand it is very similar to lirc . My config files for myth are in ~/.mythtv/lircrc (only myth related keys) and all is ok there , the config for external  apps is in ~/.lircrc (with mplayer,xine and vlc keys) . And as I said all worked perfectly in fedora 10 which by the way had lirc-0.8.4 software installed . Lirc is only still in the pc to satisfy some mythtv dependencies - sitting there dormant. Or this is what I thought . Because when I did an experiment and removed fedora 12 lirc 0.8.6 version and installed in its place fedora 10 lirc 0.8.4 , my remote control was able to control myth as well as all the external apps . I would have liked to have left it that way however f10 lirc had some other strange side-effects that forced me to put back the f12 lirc . At which point xine mplayer and vlc stopped being controllable again .
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>> So my question is has something changed in lirc from 0.8.4 to 0.8.6 that perhaps requires a change in the config to re-enable control . By the way all my lirc config is at default , I have not touched a thing . Or is there a software fault in lirc . Or do I really need it in the first place since I thought that irserver was doing all the work . Any information in getting the remote working fully would be greatly appreciated - getting too much exercise in walking to the keyboard from the couch to control other apps .
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> The location of the lircd socket has changed from /dev/lircd to /var/run/lirc/lircd. Therefore, the liblirc_client library used by most applications will look for /var/run/lirc/lircd. However, irserver creates /dev/lircd. Therefore, applications using liblirc_client won't find the lircd socket.
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> Because MythTV allows you to configure the location of the lircd socket, MythTV works.
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> If you are compiling irserver yourself, then you should patch it so that the LIRCD #define is /var/run/lirc/lircd rather than /dev/lircd. If you you are using a binary package, then you should ask the package maintainer to fix it.
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> Once you change irserver, you will need to change the MythTV lircd socket location setting so that it points to the new location.
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Hello Paul,

Thanks for your help . Now I understand what the problem is . I will
try to get irserver re-compiled to match lirc 0.8.6 . In the meantime
I have put a symlink from /dev/lircd to /var/run/lirc/lircd until I
can get a new irserver .

Best Regards

Milorad


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