[mythtv-users] Joy and pain (Daryl McDonald)

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Mike Perkins
>> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On 15/02/14 18:25, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 15/02/14 15:22, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls /dev/lirc*
>>>>> /dev/lirc0  /dev/lirc1  /dev/lircd  /dev/lircSerial
>>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>>>>
>>>> (Removed a lot of dead wood)
>>>>
>>>> It would probably help the conversation if you used one of the long
>>>> options
>>>> here, like:
>>>>
>>>> ls -al
>>>>
>>>> This would tell the rest of us just *where* /dev/lircSerial (and any other
>>>> symbolic links) actually points.
>>>>
>>> That would of course be: ls -al /dev/lirc*
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Mike Perkins
>>>
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>> Here it is:
>>
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -al /dev/lirc*
>> crw------- 1 root root 250, 0 Feb 15 10:49 /dev/lirc0
>> crw------- 1 root root 250, 1 Feb 15 10:49 /dev/lirc1
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     25 Feb 15 10:49 /dev/lircd ->
>> /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      5 Feb 15 10:49 /dev/lircSerial -> lirc1
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
> Mythbuntu Control Center set up the serial port blaster initially,
> would it help at all to disable this with MCC allow the Symlinks to
> connect then let MCC set the serial port blaster? Or should MCC get
> out and stasy out of the set-up?   just grasping at straws here.
> Daryl

When I disable the IR transmitter via MCC the line: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root     25 Feb 15 14:11 /dev/lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircdSerial
disappears from the above query, /dev/lircd seems to be the symlink
created by MCC for the blaster, so should /dev/lircd be used in the
udev rule instead of "/dev/lircSerial"?   Daryl