[mythtv-users] Fix for broken lirc package in Ubuntu 20.04

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:57:44 +0000, you wrote:

>-----Original message-----
>From: Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
>Sent: Thursday 11th November 2021 13:50
>To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Fix for broken lirc package in Ubuntu 20.04
>
>
>On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:54:06 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>
>>> On 11 Nov 2021, at 10:12, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> ?On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 12:15:42 +0000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Stephen,
>>>>
>>>> That would be great
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dave
>>>
>>> The script for Ubuntu 21.10 is here:
>>>
>>> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lirc-ubuntu-21.10-install.sh
>>>
>>> The only change from the 20.04 version is a slightly different
>>> download location for the lirc source code.  I have tested this in a
>>> VirtualBox virtual machine where I set up mythfrontend only and
>>> connected it to my main MythTV box.  I was using a Pinnacle PCTV 73e
>>> USB DVB-T tuner as my IR device, and a Hauppague RC5 remote.
>>>
>>> Once you get lirc working with the script, there are still quite a few
>>> steps to get it working with mythfrontend, such as getting the right
>>> .lircrc files and making mythfrontend find them.  So what sort of
>>> remote are you using?
>
>>Thanks Stephen,
>>
>>The script worked fine and I?m getting the correct responses in irw now, just need to get the lord file in the right place for mythfrontend to use it. I have a file that worked for my Hauppauge MCE remote before, so I should be able to use it here, but I cannot remember exactly where it needed to be.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Dave
>
>You need a $(HOME)/.lircrc file which contains includes that point to
>the files in $(HOME)/.lirc.  There is normally a mythtv file in .lirc
>where all the MythTV settings are, and another file for each program
>that is using lirc (eg mplayer).  Here is mine:
>
>root at mypvr:/home/stephen# cat .lircrc
>#Custom lircrc generated via mythbuntu-lirc-generator
>#All application specific lircrc files are within ˜/.lirc
>include ˜/.lirc/mythtv
>include ˜/.lirc/mplayer
>include ˜/.lirc/xine
>include ˜/.lirc/vlc
>include ˜/.lirc/xmame
>include ˜/.lirc/xmess
>include ˜/.lirc/totem
>include ˜/.lirc/elisa
>include ˜/.lirc/irexec
>
>Then you need a link to the .lircrc file from $(HOME)/.mythtv/lircrc
>(no . in this case), which is where MythTV programs find their lirc
>configuration.  So do this:
>
>cd $(HOME)/.mythtv
>ln -s ../.lircrc lircrc
>
>In the $(HOME/.lirc/mythtv file, the remote= lines must use the same
>name as the remote name in the file you have in
>/etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d.  In my case for my MCE remote, the file is
>devinput.lircd.conf and I had to modify it as it the remote in that
>file that lirc was using was named "devinput-32", but my
>$(HOME)/.lirc/mythtv file was using "remote=devinput".  Rather than
>changing all the "remote=" lines, I just changed the
>devinput.lircd.conf "name devinput-32" line to "name devinput".  You
>need to restart lirc after making a change to that file:
>
>sudo systemctl restart lircd

>
>Hi Stephen,
>
>
>
>Thanks for the advice, unfortunately I must be missing something as my Myth Frontend doesn't respond to the config file. I do recall that I had a lot of trouble getting it to work on my previous frontend, but I will get there.
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Dave.

If mythfrontend is successfully connecting to lirc, you should get a
line in mythfrontend.log that looks like this:

Nov  9 00:20:34 mypvr mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[3023969]: I
CoreContext lirc.cpp:310 (Init) LIRC: Successfully initialized
'/dev/lircd' using '/home/stephen/.mythtv/lircrc' config

So if you do this command:

grep -i lirc /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log

what do you see?