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

Sat Oct 6 17:32:09 UTC 2018

On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 15:36:16 +0100, you wrote:

>-----Original message-----
>From: Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>
>Sent: Saturday 6th October 2018 14:17
>To: stephen at jsw.gen.nz
>Cc: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB
>
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>> 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
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>Hi Stephen,
>
>
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>
>This is becoming a nightmare - on a completely fresh install of 18.04, with only apt-get update, apt-get upgrade & synaptic & mythfrontend installed, I get the following error after running your lirc installation script:
>
>
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>dave at D630:~/Downloads$ lirc-setup 
>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py:13: PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the right version gets loaded.
>  from gi.repository import Gtk         # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 888, in _find_spec
>AttributeError: 'DynamicImporter' object has no attribute 'find_spec'
>
>During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:Traceback
>
> (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/lirc-setup", line 16, in <module>
>    import mvc_control
>  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py", line 18, in <module>
>    import mvc_view
>  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages/lirc-setup/mvc_view.py", line 14, in <module>
>    from gi.repository import Vte         # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
>  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 127, in find_module
>    'introspection typelib not found' % namespace)
>ImportError: cannot import name Vte, introspection typelib not found
>
>
>
>I suspect I'm missing a package, but I have no idea which one.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Dave.

I do not get that problem.  I created a new virtual machine in
VirtualBox, installed Xubuntu 18.04.1 from a DVD image and told the
installer to download new files during the install.  Then I rebooted,
started a terminal and ran:

sudo su
passwd
apt update && apt upgrade && apt autoremove

and rebooted again, then started a terminal and ran:

su
apt install synaptic apt-xapian-index
update-apt-xapian-index -vf.

I used synaptic to install mariadb-client and mariadb-server.  Then
from the terminal again I ran:

apt install mythtv-frontend
cd ~
mkdir temp
cd temp
wget http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lirc-ubuntu-18.04-install.sh
chmod +x lirc-ubuntu-18.04-install.sh
./lirc-ubuntu-18.04-install.sh

After that, lirc-setup ran without problems:

root at beryl:~/temp# lirc-setup
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages/lirc-setup/mvc_control.py:13:
PyGIWarning: Gtk was imported without specifying a version first. Use
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0') before import to ensure that the
right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Gtk         # pylint:
disable=no-name-in-module
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/python3.6/site-packages/lirc-setup/mvc_view.py:14:
PyGIWarning: Vte was imported without specifying a version first. Use
gi.require_version('Vte', '2.91') before import to ensure that the
right version gets loaded.
  from gi.repository import Vte         # pylint:
disable=no-name-in-module
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)

You do need to remember to run lirc-setup as root - it has to write to
/etc/lirc and that requires root privileges.  But when I tried running
it from my "stephen" user, it still did not do the error you got,
although it did create an extraneous lircd.conf.d directory under the
current directory.