[mythtv-users] Fix lirc devices to desired names

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Josu,

Sunday, August 31, 2014, 12:30:24 PM, you wrote:

> Hello all,

> I have two IR device in my frontend, and integrated CIR and USB MCE:

> $ dmesg | grep lirc
> [    3.710645] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 251
> [    3.721774] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (nuvoton-cir)
> registered at minor = 0
> [    3.721921] rc rc1: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb)
> registered at minor = 1

> So there are 2 lirc devices:

> # ls -l /dev/lirc*
> crw-rw---T 1 root video 250, 0 Aug 31 10:22 /dev/lirc0
> crw-rw---T 1 root video 250, 1 Aug 31 12:22 /dev/lirc1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 Aug 31 12:22 /dev/lircd -> ../var/run/lirc/lircd

> Sometimes they switch the numbesr (0 and 1), so I can not know wich
> device is each.

> I can not disable the CIR device because it is in the board, so I want
> to fix the names of the devices to use them, something like this:

/dev/lirc0 ->> /dev/lirc_cir
/dev/lirc1 ->> /dev/lirc_mce

> Is this possible?

> Thanks and best regards.

Give the output off:

udevadm info --attribute-walk --path $(udevadm info --query path --name=/dev/lirc0)
and
udevadm info --attribute-walk --path $(udevadm info --query path --name=/dev/lirc1)

and I'll give you an udev rule for both.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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