[mythtv-users] Upgrade Madness

[Martin Compton]

On 12/5/21 7:51 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Dec 2021 22:11:08 +1300, you wrote:
>
>> Today I tried a few things to see if I could get IR blasting to work
>> on my MCE hardware, but no luck so far.  At the moment, I seem to have
>> screwed up my IR drivers enough that I will have to wait for a gap in
>> the recording schedule so that I can reboot the MythTV box.  But by
>> chance I ran across a post that mentioned a utility I had never heard
>> of: ir-ctl.  This says that it can send to an IR transmitter directly
>> without needing to use lirc and irsend.  On Ubuntu, it is installed as
>> part of the v4l-utils package.  So that looks like a good option, if
>> it works.  I hope to try it out later tonight after I have rebooted.
> ir-ctl works for sending with my MCE hardware.  I put my transmitter
> facing my receiver and was able to do commands like this:
>
> ir-ctl -k /lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce.toml -K KEY_DVD
>
> and see the corresponding data from "ircat mythtv" in another window.
>
> So it looks like all you will need to do is convert to the standard
> devinput setup used for the new lirc version with MCE receivers, the
> same as many others of us here on this list.  Then you can easily
> change your STB channel change script to use ir-ctl instead of irsend.
> You will have to convert your STB keycode file into .toml format,
> which is easy - just look at the /lib/udev/rc_keymaps files and you
> can see the required format.  It is not too different from the old
> format, just some added double quotes and = characters and some header
> lines.
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Excellent find.  I had to deal with a bad memory stick, so I am just now 
starting to look at Lirc and ir-ctl, and the .toml file format.
Thanks!