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

[Dave Pearson (Lists)]

> On 6 Oct 2018, at 13:44, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 11:10:31 +0100, you wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Stephen,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you so much for all of your help with this, here is the output from those commands:
>> 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ cat /etc/lirc/lircd.conf 
>> # Populated config files can be found at http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes. <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" 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ cat /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf 
>> # These are the default options to lircd, if installed as 
>> # /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf. See the lircd(8) and lircmd(8) 
>> # manpages for info on the different options. 
>> # 
>> # Some tools including mode2 and irw uses values such as 
>> # driver, device, plugindir and loglevel as fallback values 
>> # in not defined elsewhere. 
>> 
>> [lircd] 
>> nodaemon        = False 
>> driver          = devinput 
>> device          = auto 
>> output          = /var/run/lirc/lircd 
>> pidfile         = /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid 
>> plugindir       = /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lirc/plugins 
>> permission      = 666 
>> allow-simulate  = No 
>> #repeat-max      = 600 
>> repeat-max      = 1200 
>> effective-user = dave 
> 
> This one is possibly the problem.  You are running lirc as user
> "dave".  In theory, that should work as long as mythfrontend (or
> "ircat mythtv") is also running as user "dave", but there may be
> permissions problems resulting from this.  I would suggest commenting
> this out and trying it running as root.  As far as I know, this is a
> new option and older versions of lircd (as in 16.04) were always run
> as root.
> 
>> #listen         = [address:]port 
>> #connect        = host[:port] 
>> #loglevel       = 6 
>> #release        = true 
>> #release_suffix = _EVUP 
>> #logfile        = ... 
>> #driver-options = ... 
>> 
>> [lircmd] 
>> uinput          = False 
>> nodaemon        = False 
>> 
>> # [modinit] 
>> # code = /usr/sbin/modprobe lirc_serial 
>> # code1 = /usr/bin/setfacl -m g:lirc:rw /dev/uinput 
>> # code2 = ... 
>> 
>> 
>> # [lircd-uinput] 
>> # add-release-events = False 
>> # release-timeout    = 200 
>> # release-suffix     = _EVUP 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ grep name /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/*.conf 
>> # Rename to devinput.lircd.dist if not using devinput driver 
>>        name            devinput-64 
>>        name            devinput-32 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ cat $HOME/.lircrc 
>> include ~/.lirc/mythtv 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ grep remote $HOME/.lirc/* | uniq 
>>    remote = devinput-32 
>> dave at nuc1:~$ 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I just hope the key to it all is to be found in there somewhere.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dave.
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Yes, I spotted that after I sent the last email, I commented out the line and it still had no effect.

I’m now in the process of putting Ubuntu 18.04 on a laptop to see if I can get this working on a fresh install, if I can I shall reinstall on the frontend.

Regards,
Dave