<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 28/02/2011, at 9:51 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 27 February 2011 17:19, Nasa <<a href="mailto:nasa01@comcast.net">nasa01@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">However, if I run:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">sudo /etc/init.d/lirc start<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">it says:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* Loading LIRC modules<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">* Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Then I can run:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">irexec &<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But, then if I run:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">irw<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">... and press any button on the remote, I get no output whatsoever.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Where might I be going wrong?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Any advice would be much appreciated.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I believe you have to have lird stopped when you attempt to test with irw...<br></blockquote><br>lircd needs to be running when using irw, as the lircd socket needs to<br>exist for irw to connect to. However, you don't want lircd running<br>when using irrecord to generate a new remote config, as this talks to<br>the lirc device instead.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Nick<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Could this be related to the bug I have submitted:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 64.0px; text-indent: -64.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><b>[Bug 718667] [NEW] Mythbuntu Control Centre sets DVICO USB remote to wrong /dev</b></p><div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/718667">https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/718667</a></div><div><br></div><div>Where mythbuntu does not create the correct /dev/ entry, creating a /dev/lircXXX node., rather than a /dev/usb/hiddevXXX (in my case) node</div><div><br></div><div>If it does turn out to be the case, could you please add to the bugreport on launchpad</div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; ">John Haywood</div>
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