[mythtv-users] Pedestrian LIRC question

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 1:12 AM, jr wrote:

> I thought that I was well beyond the mundane LIRC problems, but I seem
> to be missing something in the steps that glue it to mythtv.  My
> installation is 0.22 on Ubuntu 9.04, which I have installed nd wiped
> on a test box several times over the past month with no problems.  I
> hope I am missing something obvious.  Does anyone see anything?
>
> LIRC is working to the point were IRW reports correctly.
> 000000037ff07be1 01 Up mceusb
> 000000037ff07be1 02 Up mceusb
> 000000037ff07be0 00 Down mceusb
> 000000037ff07be0 01 Down mceusb
> 000000037ff07bde 00 Right mceusb
> 000000037ff07bde 01 Right mceusb
>
> I am running mythfrontend from the user 'mythuser' and have created
> the standard symbolic link in the home directory to lircrc.  The same
> lircrc that I have been using for over a year under prior MythTV
> installs.

What version of lirc? 0.8.6 creates the lircd socket as /var/run/lirc/ 
lircd instead of /dev/lircd, and if you haven't got a symlink, mythtv  
will be lost, since it connects directly to the socket at /dev/lircd  
by default.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com