[mythtv-users] lirc device load order changed - tidiest way to recover?

[Andrew Codrington]

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:39 PM, Andrew Codrington <
andrew.codrington at fidenti.ca> wrote:

>
> On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 19 May 2018 13:03:06 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> <snipped>
>>
>
>> So I could use
>>
>> REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-SMK_eHome_Infrared_Trans
>> ceiver_SM005h4M-event-if00"
>>
>> and avoid having a udev rule.  The by-id option is only available in
>> recent kernels, but has been available for at least a couple of years.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for a detailed response!
>
> My machine has by-id so I started with that.
>
> First pass doesn't look successful though. lirc didn't look happy about
> restarting.
> I'll keep googling....
>

Since your response made it clear the only place I needed to edit was in
the hardware.conf file I changed the REMOTE_DEVICE to point at /dev/lirc1
and will just hope the load order stays stable...

I'm back in business. Thank you!

Cheers,
Andrew
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