[mythtv-users] lirc 0.9.0: anyone had any luck recently

[Paul Gardiner]

On 30/12/2013 23:33, Ozzy Lash wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
> <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
>
>     Sometime over the last year I ran into problem installing
>     a frontend because of the changes lirc, and reading instructions
>     from the wiki sorted it out:
>
>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/__LIRC#Migrating_to_LIRC_0.9.0.__2B
>     <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/LIRC#Migrating_to_LIRC_0.9.0.2B>
>
>     But now, installing with the lastest opensuse (13.1), those
>     same tricks aren't working, and I notice whoever kindly wrote
>     those instructions reports unsolvable problems since Oct 2012
>     on Gentoo. I'm wondering, has anyone found any way around this?
>     Or are lirc and mythtv just incompatible now?
>
>     Cheers,
>              Paul.
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> I had problems with the kernel stealing the ir data from lirc with newer
> kernels.  I added the following to the bottom of my
> /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to get rid of that issue:
>
> echo none +lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols 2> /dev/null || true

I am already using:

	echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols 2> /dev/null || true

That worked back on opensuse 12.3, but doesn't with 13.1

> I didn't want to use the devinput trick because my remote is a JP1
> programmable remote, with a code set that I customized for the device to
> map every key to a different value.  I came up with the lirc mapping for
> it years ago, and didn't want to try to tell the in kernel ir decoding
> how to decode it.

I've just realised that I didn't follow the devinput instructions quite
correctly. That may still work for me.

Cheers,
	Paul.