[mythtv-users] Gentoo, lirc and mythtv

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 23:24:45 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi List,
>
>I'm trying out MythTV on Gentoo, but can't get lirc to work with
>mythfrontend. Lirc itself seems to work, at least that's what irw tells me.
>
>000000037ff07be1 00 KEY_UP mceusb
>000000037ff07be1 01 KEY_UP mceusb
>000000037ff07bde 00 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>000000037ff07bde 01 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>000000037ff07bde 02 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
>000000037ff07be0 00 KEY_DOWN mceusb
>000000037ff07be0 01 KEY_DOWN mceusb
>000000037ff07bdf 00 KEY_LEFT mceusb
>000000037ff07bdf 01 KEY_LEFT mceusb
>...
>
>My lirc device is /dev/lirc0 according to
>
># /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
>#
>#Chosen Remote Control
>REMOTE="Windows Media Center Transceivers/Remotes (all)"
>REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev mceusb"
>REMOTE_DRIVER=""
>REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
>REMOTE_SOCKET=""
>REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb"
>REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS=""
>
>#Chosen IR Transmitter
>TRANSMITTER="None"
>TRANSMITTER_MODULES=""
>TRANSMITTER_DRIVER=""
>TRANSMITTER_DEVICE=""
>TRANSMITTER_SOCKET=""
>TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_CONF=""
>TRANSMITTER_LIRCD_ARGS=""
>
>#Enable lircd
>START_LIRCD="true"
>
>and that's what I set in the frontend under "lirc daemon socket". My
>~/.lircrc looks like this
>
>#Custom lircrc generated via mythbuntu-lirc-generator
>#All application specific lircrc files are within ~/.lirc
>include ~/.lirc/mythtv
>#include ~/.lirc/mplayer
>#include ~/.lirc/xine
>#include ~/.lirc/vlc
>#include ~/.lirc/xmame
>#include ~/.lirc/xmess
>#include ~/.lirc/totem
>#include ~/.lirc/elisa
>#include ~/.lirc/irexec
>
>and ~/.lirc/mythtv like this
>
> ...
>begin
>    remote = mceusb
>    prog = mythtv
>    button = KEY_UP
>    config = Up
>    repeat = 0
>    delay = 0
>end
>
>begin
>    remote = mceusb
>    prog = mythtv
>    button = KEY_LEFT
>    config = Left
>    repeat = 0
>    delay = 0
>end
>
>begin
>    remote = mceusb
>    prog = mythtv
>    button = KEY_OK
>    config = Return
>    repeat = 0
>    delay = 0
>end
>
>begin
>    remote = mceusb
>    prog = mythtv
>    button = KEY_RIGHT
>    config = Right
>    repeat = 0
>    delay = 0
>end
>
>begin
>    remote = mceusb
>    prog = mythtv
>    button = KEY_DOWN
>    config = Down
>    repeat = 0
>    delay = 0
>end
>...
>
>I also tried "prog = mythfrontend" and removed "KEY_" from the button
>line and restarted lircd and mythfrontend after each change. What could
>I possibly do wrong? Everything works fine on the same PC under Ubuntu.
>
>Thanks
>Thomas

Does

  ircat mythtv

work?  That is how you test that the loading of ~/.lircrc and its
include files worked and the correct config got selected.