[mythtv-users] lirc working in mythtv but not xine?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Tom,

Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 4:10:36 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/04/16 01:23, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hm... looks like it doesn't find the socket. As of 0.9.2, the handling of
>>>> the  socket path is far from consistent in ircat.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the code it looks like 0.9.2a support the LIRC_SOCKET_PATH
>>>> environment variable to determine the socket used. What happens if you
>>>> set
>>>> this to the socket path you are using before invoking ircat?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> --alec
>>>
>>> Excellent suggestion! That at least got ircat working:
>>>
>>> export LIRC_SOCKET_PATH=/var/run/lirc/lircd
>>>
>>> ircat mythtv
>>> Esc
>>> Esc
>>>
>>> ircat xine
>>> Quit
>>> Quit
>>> Quit
>>>
>>> Based on the remote key I was hitting, both of those are correct.
>>> However the fact remains that the remote isn't working in xine. Really
>>> odd...that's even more evidence that it should be working.
>>>
>>> When something runs out of mythtv using xine, the xine program ignores
>>> the remote. I have even less of a clue why now.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the ircat tip however!
>>>
>> Actually, the routine used by ircat to open the socket is the same as used
>> by the application library i. e., it might make3 sense to use
>> LIRC_SOCKET_PATH also when running xine. Did you try  that?
>>
>> BTW, the state of the  0,.9,2 docs on this issue is embarrassing.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
>> -alec

> What do you know...that did it. Getting it properly set within my
> frontend was a little confusing, because I launch my mythfrontend
> (running within fluxbox) directly from /etc/inittab using a line like
> this:

> c8:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin mythtv tty8

> It took me a while to figure out that I needed to set that
> LIRC_SOCKET_PATH in the mythtv ~/.xinitrc file...but yea that did it!

> I find it highly strange that I had to do that however and that
> something there wasn't smart enough to use the default socket path.
> That seems just a little nuts.

> Thanks for the help!
> Tom
> _______________________________________________

There should be a simlink /dev/lircd to /var/run/lirc/lircd that as
far as I know is used by default. Possibly that simlink is missing or
wrong.


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