[mythtv-users] OT: cec-client for libcec1

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 October 2013 00:28, <mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Quoting Anthony Giggins <seven at seven.dorksville.net>:
>
>  Seeing as Mythtv is still on libcec1 can anyone provide details or the
>> files to install a libcec v1 compatible version?
>>
>> I've also read that installing libcec v2 additionally to libcec v1 breaks
>> mythtv, is this still correct information?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>
> It's a pain. I've compiled libcec-daemon and use that instead of
> comppiling MythTV with libcec. libcec-daemon provides an input device so
> the X server merges it with keyboard input and all X clients can use it, a
> bit like the modern mce usb kernel drivers that don't use LIRC. It's also a
> lot easer to fiddle with libcec-daemon to tune it for your requirements
> than recompiling MythTV.
>
> https://github.com/bramp/**libcec-daemon<https://github.com/bramp/libcec-daemon>
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.
>
>
Thanks Tim,

This is working great, shame the libcec2 patches are yet to be merged into
mythtv :(

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11338

I never got the libcec1 support working even though support was compiled in
and I installed the older libcec1 versions and added my frontend user to
the dialout group :( as per
http://themanfrey.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/enabling-libcec-on-mythbuntu-1204-with.html

apt-get install libcec-dev=1.6.1-2
apt-get install libcec1=1.6.1-2

Oct  9 22:13:39 Micromyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[2235]: E
CoreContext cecadapter.cpp:146 (Open) CECAdapter: Failed to find any CEC
devices.
Oct  9 22:13:39 Micromyth mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[2235]: I
CoreContext cecadapter.cpp:216 (Close) CECAdapter: Closing down CEC.

but I couldn't find an appropriate cec-util version to install :( and
confirm

Anthony
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