[mythtv-users] Lirc doesn't work with Artful

[Steve Greene]

Updated from 17.04 (not an antique).

I guess I'll have to break out the lirc documentation, unless someone has
written a walk-through? Are there any real advantages to the devinput
driver?

Steve

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:23:56 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I upgraded a frontend to Ubuntu 17.10 Artful. Everything just works except
> >lirc and my remote control.
> >
> >When I "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc-modules-source" I get the error message
> >"dpkg-query: package 'lirc-modules-source' is not installed and no
> >information is available".
> >
> >Any help? Is there another script I should be using, or is Myth just
> >partially broken WRT lirc for Artful?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Steve
>
> What did you upgrade from?  If it was old enough, there will have been
> lots of changes in the infrared drivers, as they were moved into the
> kernel somewhere around Ubuntu 14.04.  That broke lots of lirc setups.
>
> And lirc itself has finally been updated to a much newer version
> between 16.04 and 17.10.  I am not sure whether it happened in 17.04
> or 17.10.  In 16.04 lirc is 0.9.0, which is well out of date.  In
> 17.10 it is 0.10.0 which is after major changes to lirc - it how uses
> a python frontend to do its config, and I believe the config files
> have changed considerably.  But 0.10.0 is also much more powerful and
> some of the new config options are very useful.
>
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=lirc
> http://www.lirc.org
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