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

[Phill Edwards]

>
> The lircrc config file is /home/<frontenduser>/.lircrc.  It is not
> /home/<frontenduser>/.mythtv/.lircrc.  In Mythbuntu, the .lircrc file
> is normally a list of included files, which are normally located in
> /home/<frontenduser>/.lirc/.  Each of those included files is normally
> for one program that uses lirc, but that is just a convention and the
> config from all included files gets read and executed by lirc, so if
> any of the other included files contains config with "prog = mythtv"
> lines, it might override what you are doing in your
> /home/<mythfrontenduser>/.lirc/mythtv file.
>

This is what my /home/phill/.lircrc file looks like:
include ~/.lirc/mythtv

If there is more than one user that runs mythfrontend, it is not
> unusual to have links from the other mythfrontend users back to one
> location for the config files, usually the first frontend user that
> was created, or possibly the mythtv user.  But that has to have been
> done manually.  And you can not link the .lircrc file as it uses the ~
> notation for its includes and would get the wrong file locations.  So
> you need to link the secondary frontend users' .lirc/* files to the
> primary frontend user's .lirc/* files.
>
> Make sure that setup is right.
>

I'm not really sure what you mean here by primary and secondary frontend
users. I just jave one user that runs mythfrontend: "phill".


> OK, time to do a basic check.  First, what is the full output of
> ir-keytable?
>

$ sudo ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event8) with:
        Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
        Supported protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other
        Enabled protocols: NEC RC-5 RC-6 JVC SONY SANYO LIRC other
        Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared
        bus: 3, vendor/product: 1934:5168, version: 0x0001
        Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms


> Then, with lirc running, try ir-keytable -t.  Do you see any IR keys?

If you do, then lirc is not configured properly, as it should be
> taking all the keystrokes.


Yes, unfortunately I do see some IR keys. They're the ones defined
in /etc/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce. Is this the source of my problem, do you think?
One thing I've noticed that's different in my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
compared to your's is that mine has the
line REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="mceusb/lircd.conf.mceusb" whereas your's
says REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF="devinput/lircd.conf.devinput". Do I need to set
REMOTE_LIRCD_CONF to something different related to devinput, and if so
what?


> If ir-keytable -t does not show IR
> keystrokes, shut down lirc:
>   /etc/init.d/lirc stop
> and try ir-keytable -t again.  Does you see any IR keys now?
>

Yes, I do - again, they're the ones defined in /etc/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce.


> Then restart lirc:
>   /etc/init.d/lirc start
> and paste the output from that command


$ sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start
 * Starting remote control daemon(s) :
                  [ OK ]


> and also any syslog output from lircd that happened when lirc was started.


Dec  8 22:16:07 mfe1 lircd-0.9.0[3144]: lircd(devinput) ready, using
/run/lirc/lircd


Thanks very much for helping me with this. Sorry it's taking so long!
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