[mythtv-users] [solved] Lirc_serial and mceusb v2

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Joseph Flack <jflackmd at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I spoke too quickly:
>
>
> There is a problem with this line in rc.d.  I cannot use  irsend LIST "" ""
> to list the remote names:
>
> /usr/sbin/lircd --device=/dev/lirc1 \ --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd1
> --pidfile=/var/run/lirc/lircd1.pid
>
>  Comment it out, it lists the mceusb and PaceDC50X in /etc/lirc/liric.config
>
>
> # ls /var/run/lirc/
> lircd  lircd1.pid  lircd.pid
>
> # ls /dev/lir*
> /dev/lirc0  /dev/lirc1
>
> Am I supposed to have a /var/run/lirc/lircd1 as on output device? Note I
> misspelled "pidfile" earlier had an "s" at the end) and I was able to list
> the remotes to list with irsend LIST "" ""

By default, irsend will talk to the primary lirc instance's socket,
/var/run/lirc/lircd. Your secondary instance should indeed be doing
output to /var/run/lirc/lircd1 (or similar), and then to get irsend to
talk to it, 'irsend -d /var/run/lirc/lircd1 LIST "" ""' should work.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com