[mythtv-users] Streamzap Remote Configuration, almost there!

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 6:34 PM, John Pierce wrote:

> Okay!  I have it narrowed down to the permissions of the lircd device
> in /dev/, now I have to figure out how to wirte a udev rule to create
> the node with the owner of the console owning the lircd device node.
>
> I know that this is the problem, I changed the ownership of /dev/lircd
> manually with chown and as soon as I owned the device node
> mythfrontend running as my user began using the remote.
>

You could just cheat and change the permissions on the device with a  
line in rc.local, but fixing it in udev rules/permissions is a  
cleaner solution. You want to create a custom rule that runs before  
your generic one, otherwise an update might wipe out your change.