[mythtv-users] lirc w/atrpms

[Nick]

On 17/02/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 02/17/2006 01:00 AM, Dylan R. Semler wrote:
> > This is a minor issue but it's been annoying me.  I'm running myth from
> > atrpms-testing which I've read has lirc compiled in.  However, I cannot
> > get my remote to work in myth without running the irxevent program
> > first.  I have taken the lircrc.example file from the myth tarball,
> > edited the button names and placed it as .lircrc in my home directory
> > and slinked to it in ~/.mythtv.
>
> Make sure it's called ~/.mythtv/lircrc (without a "." on the filename)

Mike,

You can probably answer this one, but I've been wondering since
starting to use MythTV why it requires its own lircrc file and cannot
use ~/.lircrc directly like other LIRC-enabled programs? I answered an
identical query to this one the other day (missing period), but it got
me wondering again why the symlink needs to be there and why Myth
doesn't automatically default to ~/.lircrc.

Thanks for any ideas,
Cheers,
Nick