[mythtv-users] HELP. My remote broke with this help -- Re: lircd setup with hdhomerun kludge

[Allen Edwards]

OK, gave that command a try and it doesn't look good.

allen at MythNew:/etc$ sudo systemctl disable lirc
[sudo] password for allen:
lirc.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable lirc
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `lirc'
overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `lirc'
overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
allen at MythNew:/etc$

I have no idea what all this means. I took out the killall lircd statement
and tested the remote. It did not work.

I put the killall back in rc.local and still no remote

I issued the other command you gave  sudo systemctl start lirc and still no
remote

Also, irw is no longer recognized so I now have no remote at all.  My wife
will be very unhappy.

Pleas help me get back to where I was. I will never complain about my
kludge again.


On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:22:58 -0700, you wrote:
>
> lirc in 16.04 is a quite old version (0.9.0).  The version in 18.04 is
> 0.10.0, and its Python configuration tools are badly broken - clearly
> no one ever tested them.  They can not find their libraries and crash
> when run.  I believe lircd itself is fine, and if the config files can
> be manually created it will work.  And it is rather more capable than
> 0.9.0.  But I have not actually verified that as I have not upgraded
> any of my running systems to 18.04.1 yet.
>
> So your choice of 16.04 is fortuitous - you need a working lirc, and
> 18.04 does not have one yet.
>
> >Everything works but I am still not happy killing lircd before starting it
> >myself.
> >
> >1) I am surprised that entering the correct UDP ports in frontend setup
> >didn't work.
> >
> >2) Assuming I still need to use rc.local, which I have no problem with as
> >it works, I want to disable whatever else is starting lircd.  Perhaps it
> is
> >this file:
> >
> >Would /etc/lirc/hardward.conf be the file to edit?
> >
> >#Enable lircd
> >START_LIRCD="true"
> >
> >#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
> >#START_LIRCMD="false"
> >
> >Allen
>
> No, not in 16.04.  16.04 uses systemd to control and start things.  So
> to disable lircd from starting at boot, you need to do this:
>
> sudo systemctl disable lirc
>
> When you want to start lircd later, the command is:
>
> sudo systemctl start lirc
>
> You do not need the sudo from rc.local.
>
> With systemd, using rc.local is regarded as the wrong way of doing
> things, but there is a very steep learning curve with systemd to work
> out the right way of doing things, and rc.local does still work.
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