[mythtv-users] Need help with native lirc

[Dan Morphis]

John, I had an issue a while back getting native lirc support to work in myth.  Turned out, I had forgotten to stop auto-starting irxevent when I tried to switched to native.  Make sure you aren't starting irxevent.

-dan

>
>Definitely helpful.  I have now moved the lircrc to
>/home/myth/.mythtv/lircrc.  Unfortunately this didn't fix the issue but it
>was certainly an oversite on my part.  You know I ever re-read that section
>last evening and could remember the passage.  I had mentally transposed the
>text to "Notice the .lircrc not lircrc" 100% wrong.  Thanks.
>
>You are also right, I was hoping this would be something I could fix quickly
>without having to attach keyboard/mouse/monitor.  Oddly I'm not getting
>anything in my syslog at all regarding connects.  I can start irw and get
>the responses on screen but upon checking syslog there is nothing there
>regarding lirc/irw.  There has never been anything in my syslog regarding
>mythfrontend.  Now I don't want to be stupid here... but I don't have to run
>the backend for native lirc to work do I?
>
>Also, I'm running Mandrake 9.2 but lirc and all myth modules are compiled
>from source.  Also, the machines are all bare metal builds (I will hack this
>until I have a total install script that does everything for me, then I'll
>walk away for a couple of hours and come back to test).  There are urpmi
>pacakges used, but only for prerequisites.
>
>Thanks for your help Harry and to Joseph A. Caputo, wish the lircrc was the
>problem.  Well wait one more thought.  I can't start lircd as myth even if I
>take it out of my rc.local myth can't start it, I have to go to root to
>start the daemon. Now this didn't have an effect on irxevent or on irw, but
>could the lircd process belonging to root be a problem? I'm gonna keep
>plugging on it, thanks guys.
>
>John
>
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