<div dir="ltr"><div>Everything works but I am still not happy killing lircd before starting it myself.</div><div><br></div><div>1) I am surprised that entering the correct UDP ports in frontend setup didn't work.</div><div><br></div><div>2) Assuming I still need to use rc.local, which I have no problem with as it works, I want to disable whatever else is starting lircd. Perhaps it is this file:</div><div><br></div>Would /etc/lirc/hardward.conf be the file to edit?<div><br></div><div><div>#Enable lircd</div><div>START_LIRCD="true"</div><div><br></div><div>#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file</div><div>#START_LIRCMD="false"</div></div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Allen Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I installed mythbuntu 16.04 which updated some things but I understand is basically 2 years old. I figured it was 8 years newer than the system that crashed and I wanted something easier than compiling from source. Maybe I should have asked here which way to go.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:45:18 -0700, you wrote:<br>
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> Actually, there is no such file on my system as lirc_options.conf. There<br>
>is a section in the frontend setup that looks like it might work. I<br>
>entered 5000 as the port in the UDP section with and without checking the<br>
>box for network remotes. Restarted the computer each time and.... nothing<br>
>worked. I had to put back the kludge.<br>
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</span>The file /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf is for recent versions of lirc,<br>
after it was changed to use Python based config programs. You are<br>
likely using an older version if you do not have that file.<br>
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