[mythtv-users] LIRC loading time

John Harvey john.p.harvey at btinternet.com
Sat Nov 20 20:16:29 UTC 2004


I just got bitten by an obvious and I am not sure of the history of this but
I just rebuilt a clean myth without lirc support so ended up with this
behaviour. So if you are building myth yourself make sure this is enabled in
settings.pro.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: 20 November 2004 20:06
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] LIRC loading time
> 
> On Nov 19, 2004, at 4:25 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
> 
> > checked the permissions of ~/.mythtv/lircrc all looks correct same
> > with the filenames... what else would cause irw to work but not
> > mythtv?
> 
> Don't know. If you really have the right permissions on lircrc (i.e.,
> your mythtv user can actually read it) and all the button names match
> up with the button names in lircd.conf, it should work. I haven't a
> clue what else could be going wrong, most people don't have this much
> trouble. Feel free to include a copy of the output from "ls -l
> /home/<mythtvuser>/.mythtv/lircrc" (changing <mythtvuser> to whatever
> your Myth user is. You might also include your lircd.conf and lircrc
> contents. Perhaps you're missing something that someone else will
> notice.
> 
> 
> > Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >
> >> On Friday 19 November 2004 13:47, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
> >>
> >>> No one knows why the remote might not work for mythtv but works in
> >>> irw
> >>> even though I have the .lircd files int he right spot?
> >>>
> >>
> >> irw only needs a working lircd.conf file in place. Myth needs a
> >> properly configured ~/.mythtv/lircrc file in place. Double-check that
> >> config file. Maybe you have the wrong permissions on it (i.e., its
> >> owned by root, so your myth user can't read it) or perhaps the button
> >> names in lircrc don't match those in lircd.conf.
> 
> --
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
> jcw at wilsonet.com
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