<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Hika van den Hoven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com" target="_blank">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hoi Kirk,<br>
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 6:55:07 PM, you wrote:<br>
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> On 10/14/2015 9:32 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:<br>
>> The devinput LIRC driver does exactly this - acts as a bridge between<br>
>> the kernel decoding and the LIRC application interface. You feed the<br>
>> event device as the --device option to devinput, starts lircd and then<br>
>> uses irw. This is what's described in [2]<br>
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> Ah, I did not change the "device=" setting in lirc_options.conf. I think<br>
> I thought it was saying what the device line the driver *created* at<br>
> startup. My bad.<br>
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>> You can use udev rules to handle that the event device is not fixed as<br>
>> Karl described. However, it's not really necessary, see [1]<br>
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> That's right. You told me about that before. I got sidetracked onto<br>
> other things. This device has a nice unique name so that:<br>
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> device = name='*Spinel*'<br>
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> Should work. Is it case sensitive?<br>
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</span>Yes.<br>
You need something like:<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Actually, no, Alec was pointing out that lirc has a nice device name matching feature built in so you don't need udev rules. But Kirk, make sure your device parameter has no spaces. In other words, --device=name="*Spinel*"<br>If you're using hardware.conf, it would look like REMOTE_DEVICE="name='*Spinel*'" (note the single quotes inside, which I think should work)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></div>