[mythtv-users] LIRC woes

[Paul Gardiner]

On 06/03/2018 13:51, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 06/03/18 14:23, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> I'm in the process of updating the linux distribution I use for my
>> frontend, and the pipe /dev/lircd has disappeared. The pipe is present
>> at /var/run/lirc/lircd, but where older versions of my distribution made
>> /dev/lircd a soft link to it, the newer one doesn't. I imagine it's to
>> do with changes in lirc rather than specific to my distribution.
>> mythfrontend seems to look for /dev/lircd and just give up when it
>> doesn't find it.
>>
>> I just thought I'd ask here in case anyone else had run into similar and
>> knew a good work around. It could be just something I need to change in
>> lirc's config. I suppose I could just add something to the boot
>> procedure to add the link, but that seems clunky.
> 
> IIRC, there is an entry for the lirc pipe in the mythTV configuration,
> so it should be possible to change the default /dev/lircd to the
> present, sane value of /var/run/lrcd.
> 
> Sane?! Indeed, pipes and other temporaries setup by applications should
> reside in /run, not dev according to overall filesystems principles.
> 
> That said, lircd's output pipe is configured in lirc config file
> lirc_options.conf (normally /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf). So, also that
> could be changed, but the idea is certainly not to linger in /dev, an
> area handled by the kernel and udev.

Thank you. I hadn't noticed it was a configurable option. All working
nicely now.

Cheers,
	Paul.