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

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 01:19:20 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Tom,
>
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>

Everything looks good there:

ll /dev/lircd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr  5 20:37 /dev/lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd

Thanks!
Tom


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