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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Hi Stephen!</p>
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<pre class="western">You can adjust which KEY_ value is created by each key by editing your
seiko file. </pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Right now I’m
going to leave the unassigned keys (Auto, V.Chip, etc.) alone,
concentrating on the main-use keys (0-9, Up, Down, and the like).
BTW, it’s Seiki, not Seiko.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The Seiki
configuration file - - the one I found at
<a href="https://gist.github.com/gisikw/a2ffa7f45efa0d9c3bee">https://gist.github.com/gisikw/a2ffa7f45efa0d9c3bee</a>
– is at /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/Seiki_LIRC.conf . Good news is
it is found/listed by <b>systemctl status lircd.socket
lircd.service</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> .</span></p>
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<pre class="western">To see what happens to the raw keystrokes, you need to shut down lirc:
sudo systemctl stop lircd
and then run ir-keytable:
sudo ir-keytable -t</pre>
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color="#000000">Well
that seems to indicate a problem: ‘command not found’!</font></p>
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color="#000000">OK: <i>sudo apt install ir-keytable</i> solves
that problem! </font>
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">sudo ir-keytable -t
Then try pressing some keys that work, and then the ones that do not.</pre></blockquote></pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">And no output.
Reboot. </p>
<pre class="western">sudo systemctl stop lircd
sudo ir-keytable -t</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Still no output. <i>irw</i><span
style="font-style: normal"> does give an output. </span>
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<pre class="western"><blockquote type="cite"><pre class="western">If there is output, hopefully it will give you the right value to
put into your seiko file. If not, take a look at your syslog file and
see if there are any messages created there about keycode errors.</pre></blockquote>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">cat /var/log/syslog</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> cat
/var/log/syslog
| grep -i error ==> just three from lightdm</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> cat
/var/log/syslog
| grep -i fail ==> ummmm… systemd’s <a
href="mailto:bthelper@hcio.service">bthelper@hcio.service</a>
==> bluetooth – nevermind!</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"> cat
/var/log/syslog
| grep -i lircd ==> messages re: “caught signal”</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Otherwise nothing
at
all about keycode errors: </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE lircd[887]: lircd-0.10.1[887]: Notice: caught signal</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE lircd-0.10.1[887]: Notice: caught signal</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE systemd[1]: Stopping Flexible IR remote input/output
application support...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE systemd[1]: lircd.service: Main process exited,
code=killed, status=15/TERM</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE systemd[1]: lircd.service: Succeeded.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">May 11 10:28:47
RPi-MythFE systemd[1]: Stopped Flexible IR remote input/output
application support.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">pi@RPi-MythFE:~ $ </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">OK, I’m going to
send this off and see if anything makes sense as to why not
working
as expected. Will take a look at your file (
<a href="http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lircrc.tar.bz2">http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lircrc.tar.bz2</a>
) to compare to what I see here.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Again, TIA (and I
got the letters in the right sequence this time!!)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Barry</p>
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