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

[Paul Gardiner]

On 31/12/2013 12:12, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 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.

And performing the setup correctly worked.

P.