<div dir="ltr"><div>I used Raspbian Buster Linux distro and the HDMI output to my TV. I was surprised that CEC works out of box allowing me to use my TV remote in MythTV Frontend. I didn't have to do anything additional except for editing the Keybindings from the Mythfrontend menu to correctly map the new buttons from the TV remote.</div><div><a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Remote_Control_with_CEC">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Remote_Control_with_CEC</a><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 1:53 PM Barry Martin <<a href="mailto:barry3martin@gmail.com">barry3martin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Hi Stephen!</p>
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<pre>ls -ald /dev/lircd</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">No such file or the
RPi puts it elsewhere so looked, then I read later where
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<pre><span style="background:transparent">If you do not have a /dev/lircd</span>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">and the
installation
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<pre>sudo su
cd /etc/systemd/system
wget <a href="http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lircd-dev.service" target="_blank">http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/lircd-dev.service</a>
chown root:root lircd-dev.service
chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r lircd-dev.service
systemctl enable lircd-dev.service
systemctl start lircd-dev.service
exit</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Recheck ls -ald
/dev/lircd ==> now get the <i>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 10
04:51 /dev/lircd -> /run/lirc/lircd</i> result (with my
timestamp).</p>
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<pre>Then either change all the "remote = devinput" lines to "remote =
seiki", or in the Seiki_LIRC.conf file change the "name seiki" line to
"name devinput" and it should start working.</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">I decided to use
the
‘b’ option: only one item to change (though Find-and-Replace
wouldn’t be much work!) plus I’m considering cloning the SD card
to use on a second (TV) set – naturally a different brand and
remote! One master backup SD card would make things a little
easier.</p>
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<pre>sudo systemctl restart lircd
And after installing (or editing) the .lirc/* files, you need to
restart mythfrontend (or restart your "ircat mythtv" command if you
are using that to test with).</pre>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Here I’ll admit to
not following instructions on purpose (!) I had had to power boot
because the RPi had locked up – nothing due to your commands but
when when I inserted the thumbdrive a tiny bit of static
electricity
even though I had touched metals (metal ring of the thumbdrive
connector to finger and finger to metal case of RPi). </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">So ended up with a
fresh boot since Mythfrontend was started and figured I’d try. <b>Yea!!
The Seiki Remote works!! </b> At least up here on the
monitor – will move down to where the TV is later. (Will work,
just have to see what happens with both the TV and RPi looking at
the
same remote, though TV vs HDMI Input on the TV may make that
difference.) </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Will have to figure
what key on the remote does what but the basic functions of moving
highlighted text with the arrow keys works so I’m presuming all
assigned keys work; may have to tweak with Edit Keys but that’s
expected.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">So once again a Big
Thank You!!</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">Barry</p>
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