[mythtv-users] what's the secret with lirc

[Daniel Walton]

yep, that did the trick, thanks!

Daniel

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Khanh Tran wrote:

> make sure the user you run mythtv as has read and write access to
> /dev/lircd.  Either chmod your /dev/lircd (or whatever it is) to 666 or
> chown mythtv to it.
>
> -Khanh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Walton [mailto:dwalton at cisco.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:45 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] what's the secret with lirc
>
> I've compiled myth with LIRC support, lircd is running:
>
> [mythtv at mythtv ~]$ ps -ef | grep lircd
> root      4605     1  0 Apr04 ?        00:00:00 lircd
> mythtv    7528  4962  0 08:49 pts/2    00:00:00 greplircd
> [mythtv at mythtv ~]$
>
> irw tells me that the remote is working:
>
> [mythtv at mythtv mythtv]# irw
> 000000037ff07be1 00 Up mceusb
> 000000037ff07be1 01 Up mceusb
> 000000037ff07be0 00 Down mceusb
> 000000037ff07be0 01 Down mceusb
> 000000037ff07bde 00 Right mceusb
> 000000037ff07bde 01 Right mceusb
> 000000037ff07bdf 00 Left mceusb
> [mythtv at mythtv mythtv]#
>
> but when I launch myth it can't connect:
>
> 04-05 08:48:18 Enabled verbose msgs :all
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: Permission denied
> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
>
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> thx
> Daniel
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