[mythtv-users] Need help with native lirc

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 22:49, John Ross wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been using MythTV for quite sometime and just recently decided
> to also begin running Mythvideo and MythDVD.  So... irxevent control
> is no longer able to cover my needs for remote.  If I run video or
> dvd, as I leave the playback the focus is not returned to Myth. 
> Since my frontends (4 frontends - 2 backends) do not have keyboards
> or mice, I cannot regain control of the machine.  As I said, lirc
> with irxevent is working fine for me.  But after recompiling with
> native lirc I have no joy.  Naturally I'm no longer starting irxevent
> &.  Lirc is started as per the MythTV howto in my rc.local file. 
> MythTV is started with the following script
>
> killall mythfrontend
> killall irxevent
> mythfrontend -l /home/myth/mythfrontlog.txt
>
> which exists as mythtv.sh in my .kde/Autostart directory.
>
> In the log for the frontend I get:
>
> 2004-04-13 21:05:21 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
> mythtv: could not connect to socket
> mythtv: No such file or directory

This message indicates that it can't find your lircrc file for Myth.

> lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
> 2004-04-13 21:05:23 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
>
> And of course it does not operate.  I have gone to /dev and have set
> lirc, lircd and even lircm to 0777 (yes 777 since 666 wasn't working
> and I don't see the need for "security" on a machine that only
> operates as a mythfrontend).
>
> My config file (.lircrc) is:

This is the problem... Myth looks for ~/.mythtv/lircrc

-JAC