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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325fba; padding-left: 5px; margin: 0px 5px 1em;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original message-----<br /><span><strong>From:</strong> Greg Oliver <oliver.greg@gmail.com></span><br /><span><strong>Sent:</strong> Saturday 6th October 2018 0:54</span><br /><span><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org></span><br /><span><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [mythtv-users] Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB</span><br /><br /></span>
<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM Dave Pearson (Lists) <<a href="mailto:lists@the-pearsons.co.uk" target="_blank" title="mailto:lists@the-pearsons.co.uk
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br /> > On 5 Oct 2018, at 18:22, Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank" title="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz
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Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes</a>.<br /> > The<br /> > # irdb-get(1) and lirc-setup(1) tools can be used to search and<br /> > download<br /> > # config files.<br /> > #<br /> > # From 0.9.2 config files could just be dropped as-is in the<br /> > lircd.conf.d<br /> > # directory and be included by this file.<br /> > <br /> > include "lircd.conf.d/*.conf"<br /> > <br /> > <br /> > If it does not, then you need to do this from a root prompt:<br /> > <br /> > cd /etc/lirc<br /> > cp -a lircd.conf.dist lircd.conf<br /> > <br /> > If you want to keep the old lircd.conf, rename it first:<br /> > <br /> > mv lircd.conf lircd.conf.16.04<br /> > _______________________________________________<br /> > mythtv-users mailing list<br /> > <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">https://forum.mythtv.org</a><br /><br /> Hi Stephen,<br /><br /> ircat mythtv doesn’t show any input from the remote<br /><br /> I do have a lircd.conf file in /etc/lirc<br /><br /> Regards,<br /> Dave<br /></blockquote>
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<div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: monospace,monospace;">Permissions on files possibly? The entries in your config looks correct, but can they be read? I am out of ideas here if ircat does not work. What are the perms on /var/run/lirc/lircd also?</span></div>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0;">Hi Greg</p>
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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Permissions on /var/run/lirc/lircd:</span></p>
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<div>dave@nuc1:/var/run/lirc$ ls -al</div>
<div>total 4</div>
<div>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Oct 5 17:06 .</div>
<div>drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 1080 Oct 6 07:26 ..</div>
<div>srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Oct 5 17:06 lircd</div>
<div>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Oct 5 17:06 lircd.pid</div>
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<div>On ~/.lircrc & ~/.lirc:</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #54ff54;">dave@nuc1</span>:<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #5454ff;">~</span>$ ls .lirc* -al <br />-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 23 Oct 5 16:38 .lircrc <br /> <br />.lirc: <br />total 16 <br />drwxrwxr-x 2 dave dave 4096 Oct 5 05:14 <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #5454ff;">.</span> <br />drwxr-xr-x 25 dave dave 4096 Oct 6 07:26 <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #5454ff;">..</span> <br />-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave 4660 Oct 5 05:14 mythtv<br /></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: monospace;">mythfrontend appears to be connecting to the lircd socket and also reading the .lircrc config file:</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: monospace;">Oct 5 19:48:29 nuc1 mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[11534]: I CoreContext <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff5454;">lirc</span>.<a href="cpp:322">cpp:322</a> (Init) LIRC: Successfully initial<br />ized '/var/run/<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff5454;">lirc</span>/<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff5454;">lirc</span>d' using '/home/dave/.<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #ff5454;">lirc</span>rc' config<br /></span></div>
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<div>And yet still the control doesn't work!</div>
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<div>I'm almost at the point of rebuilding the frontend and starting again.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Dave.</div>
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