[mythtv-users] Trying To Get Two IR Receivers Working

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/14/2015 9:55 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
>
> On 10/14/2015 9:32 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
>> The devinput LIRC driver does exactly this - acts as a bridge between
>> the kernel decoding and the LIRC application interface. You feed the
>> event device as the --device option to devinput, starts lircd and then
>> uses irw. This is what's described in [2]
>
> Ah, I did not change the "device=" setting in lirc_options.conf. I 
> think I thought it was saying what the device line the driver 
> *created* at startup. My bad.
>
>>
>> You can use udev rules to handle that the event device is not fixed as
>> Karl described. However, it's not really necessary, see [1]
>>
>>
>
> That's right. You told me about that before. I got sidetracked onto 
> other things. This device has a nice unique name so that:
>
> device = name='*Spinel*'

I installed driver=devinput and installed the devinput conf file. I then 
tried several variations of the device= line. With and without double 
quotes, with NAME= and name=. Although the doc page shows no double 
quotes and lower case, I am firing this off from a config file.

lircd is starting:
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt systemd[1]: Started LIRC Infrared Signal Decoder.
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt systemd[1]: Starting LIRC Infrared Signal 
Decoder...
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Illegal effective uid: 
lirc: Success
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Info: Using remote: devinput.
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Info: Using remote: devinput.
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Notice: lircd(devinput) 
ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd[11203]: lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Illegal 
effective uid: lirc: Success
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd[11203]: lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Info: Using 
remote: devinput.
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd[11203]: lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Info: Using 
remote: devinput.
Oct 14 17:38:19 liva2.pvt lircd[11203]: lircd-0.9.2a[11203]: Notice: 
lircd(devinput) ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd

Still *nothing* from irw and ir-keytable still whines:

$ir-keytable -t
Couldn't find any node at /sys/class/rc/rc*.

Tried a couple of manual -d versions:

ir-keytable -t -d 
/dev/input/by-id/usb-PHILIPS_MCE_USB_IR_Receiver-_Spinel_plus-event-ir

ir-keytable -t -d 
/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000\:00\:14.0-usb-0\:2\:1.0-event-ir

Still nothing.