[mythtv-users] Problems after upgrading frontend from Mythbuntu 12.04 to 14.04

[Phill Edwards]

>
> Hi Stephen, thanks for this info. When I ran  "sudo ir-keytable --test
> --device=/dev/input/event4 | tee key_presses.log" I found that all the
> buttons on the Harmony 600 remote were working. The only slight mismatch
> was that the Menu button on the remote was logged as KEY_DVD but that
> doesn't matter (I don't think).
>
> So I presume that means things are looking good for me and I can use the
> existing /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce without having to make any changes.
> But what do I do now to get it all working? What file needs to go where?
> What daemons need to be turned on or off? How do I stop lirc from trying to
> do it "the old way"? I presume I need to do something with /etc/rc_maps.cfg
> but I don't know what. Am I supposed to run "sudo ir-keytable -s rc1 -a
> /etc/rc_maps.cfg"? When I tried this I got an error:
>
> $ sudo ir-keytable -s rc1 -a /etc/rc_maps.cfg
> Protocol RC6_MCE invalid
> Invalid parameter on line 1 of /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce
> Can't load rc6_mce table from /etc/rc_keymaps or /lib/udev/rc_keymaps
>
> Sorry for all the questions, but I don't understand the end to end process
> of getting this to work, and what I found online wasn't very helpful.
>

I _think_ I've made some progress:

1) I can see button presses when I run irw,
2) I can see button presses when I run sudo ir-keytable -t -s rc0, but only
if I'm not running lirc daemon. Is that expected?
3) I can't see any button presses when I run ircat mythtv.
4) When I start mythfrontend I get no response to button presses on the
remote.

So it looks like I may have some basic building blocks in place, but I
haven't glued them together properly yet. Can anyone please advise what I
need to do to get this working from here? One thing I'm very confused about
is why I need to run lirc if we're using devinput. Would this be easier to
get working if I removed lirc, or at least didn't run the daemon on startup?
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