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

[Dave Pearson (Lists)]

> On 12 Nov 2021, at 17:21, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:59:02 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>> 
>>>> On 12 Nov 2021, at 16:49, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ?On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:57:44 +0000, you wrote:
> 
>>>> 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?
> 
>> Hi Stephen,
>> 
>> We’ll this is an unexpected result:
>> 
>> Nov 12 16:05:31 giga01 mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[1646]: E CoreContext lirc.cpp:233 (Init) LIRC: Failed to parse IP address ''
>> 
>> I’m not really sure why it would be using an IP address?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dave
> 
> I can't say I have ever seen that before.  It is possible to use lirc
> over a network connection, but that is normally the lirc daemon doing
> that using the listen and connect options in
> /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf (one lirc daemon listens for connections,
> the other connects to the listening daemon and gets to use its
> hardware).  A lirc client like mythfrontend can also connect to a
> listening lirc daemon directly, with the right configuration.  So what
> do you have in Setup > General > Remote Control > LIRC daemon socket?
> If you have a typo there, mythfrontend might be thinking it is
> supposed to be doing a network connection.  It should be set to
> "/dev/lirc".  Using "/var/run/lirc/lircd" or "/run/lirc/lircd" should
> also work.
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Thanks Stephen,

That was exactly it, I had to set /dev/lircd in that setting, then it was just a case of setting up the lircrc file correctly in .MythTV.

All I have to do now is a little bit of mapping in mythfrontend for a couple of the keys to enable me to bring up the context menus.

Thanks again for your help with this.

Dave