[mythtv-users] How do I debug problems setting up lirc?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:56:54 -0400, you wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 01:28:04PM +0000, Dan Wilga wrote:
>> On 7/16/24 5:42 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>> > I wrote a couple of weeks ago about needing to upgrade my CATV set top box equipment. I was
>> > able to make some progress and get _lirc_ working in a test environment. Today I discovered
>> > [ ...snip... ]
>> 
>> Sean, you've given lots of details about your setup, but no details about
>> what your specific problem is. What doesn't work?
>> 
>
>I have a _lirc_ settup using an FTDI based IR transmitter on Rocky-9. The **Rocky-9** setup
>flawlessly changes channels in my test environment.
>
>My current _"production"_ environment is CentOS-7. I transferred the configuration from the
>working Rocky-9 setup to CentOS and retested. Channel changing completely fails. From my
>tests I think it's something about the CentOS-7 _lirc_ packages but I can't be sure.
>
>**I'm trying to get, and failing at getting, my transferred configuration to work.** 
>
>I need to preserve my production environment for about 5 weeks because I'm going on
>vacation. I have determined that I could rebuild my MythTV on Rocky-8 and have _lirc_
>working but if getting _lirc_ going on CentOS-7 can be done and takes less time then I'd be
>happier with that temporary solution.

CentOS-7 seems to have last been updated in 2017, so it may well be
old enough to use the version of lirc from before the major update
when the drivers were moved to the kernel.  The config for that
version is very different to modern lirc.  I have found a copy of the
CentOS-7-x86_64-Everything-1708.iso to download so I will try an
install of that in a virtual machine and see how it looks.