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

[Steve Greene]

I'm reinstalling 17.04 on this frontend, but I have a secondary backend for
which I'll probably need kernel 4.16 (running a Ryzen 3 2200g), so I'll
probably try to make the new lirc work on that first.

Thanks for the advice.

Steve

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:05:59 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> >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  In 16.04 lirc is 0.9.0, which is well out of date.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
>
> >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
>
> That depends on what remote receiver you are using.  If the non-kernel
> drivers still work for you, then that is fine.  They did not for me
> (MCE remotes), so I converted to devinput and that has worked fine
> ever since.  But it took several days of hard work to find out exactly
> how to make it work.  I have my setup on my web server, if you would
> like to use it as a base to work from:
>
> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mythbuntu-devinput-lirc.bz2
>
> I am still on 16.04, so it does not include any of the changes for the
> lirc update from 0.9.0 to the Python versions.  I do have 17.10 on my
> test box, and am intending to put 18.04 on there as soon as it is
> released and try the lirc changes there before I upgrade my production
> systems.  I am guessing that most people are still using 16.04 like me
> and there will be quite a few who have problems like you do when the
> 18.04 upgrade happens.  But I have seen some messages about the Python
> config changes, so do try googling before you try to do it all
> yourself.
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