[mythtv-users] Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM Dave Pearson (Lists) <
lists at the-pearsons.co.uk> wrote:

>
> > On 5 Oct 2018, at 18:22, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:59:46 +0100, you wrote:
> >>
> >> I’m so close it hurts!
> >>
> >> Ok, so my ~/.lirc/mythtv file looks like this:
> >>
> >> begin
> >>    remote = devinput-32
> >>    prog = mythtv
> >>    button = left
> >>    config = left
> >> end
> >>
> >> Etc.
> >>
> >> My ~/.lircrc file looks like this:
> >>
> >> include ~/.lirc/mythtv
> >>
> >> And I can see the key presses in irw
> >>
> >> I’ve restarted my front end and it’s still not working - there’s got to
> be something else, obvious, that I’m just not spotting - any ideas?
> >>
> >> (Just noticed, this thread is actually about controlling a set top box,
> not controlling the frontend, sorry about hijacking it - this should have
> stayed in the other thread)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dave
> >
> > Shut down mythfrontend and try "ircat mythtv" from a command prompt
> > with the same user as mythfrontend is run from.  Does that show any
> > input from the remote?
> >
> > Also, I have just done the 16.04 to 18.04.1 upgrade on my main MythTV
> > box, and for some reason the lirc update did not install the new
> > /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file.  Check if that happened to you.  It should
> > look like this:
> >
> > # Populated config files can be found at http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes.
> > The
> > # irdb-get(1) and lirc-setup(1) tools can be used to search and
> > download
> > # config files.
> > #
> > # From 0.9.2 config files could just be dropped as-is in the
> > lircd.conf.d
> > # directory and be included by this file.
> >
> > include "lircd.conf.d/*.conf"
> >
> >
> > If it does not, then you need to do this from a root prompt:
> >
> > cd /etc/lirc
> > cp -a lircd.conf.dist lircd.conf
> >
> > If you want to keep the old lircd.conf, rename it first:
> >
> > mv lircd.conf lircd.conf.16.04
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> Hi Stephen,
>
> ircat mythtv doesn’t show any input from the remote
>
> I do have a lircd.conf file in /etc/lirc
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>

Permissions on files possibly?  The entries in your config looks correct,
but can they be read?  I am out of ideas here if ircat does not work.  What
are the perms on /var/run/lirc/lircd also?
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