[mythtv-users] USB IR Receivers

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

> On 8/28/2015 2:32 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>
> Do I need to write a udev rule to create /dev/lirc0 for this device?
>
> Hunting around I saw the suggestion to edit /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf:
>
> driver          = devinput
> device          = /dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir
>
> Now after running irw:
>
> $systemctl status lircd -l
> â lircd.service - LIRC Infrared Signal Decoder
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service; enabled)
>    Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-08-28 16:35:31 PDT; 8min ago
>  Main PID: 9814 (lircd)
>    CGroup: /system.slice/lircd.service
>            ââ9814 /usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon
>
> Aug 28 16:35:31 liva2 lircd[9814]: lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: lircd(devinput)
> ready, using /var/run/lirc/lircd
> Aug 28 16:35:31 liva2 lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: lircd(devinput) ready, using
> /var/run/lirc/lircd
> Aug 28 16:36:31 liva2 lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: accepted new client on
> /var/run/lirc/lircd
> Aug 28 16:36:31 liva2 lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: initializing
> '/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir'
> Aug 28 16:36:31 liva2 lircd[9814]: lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: accepted new client
> on /var/run/lirc/lircd
> Aug 28 16:36:31 liva2 lircd[9814]: lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: initializing
> '/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir'
> Aug 28 16:37:57 liva2 lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: removed client
> Aug 28 16:37:57 liva2 lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: closing
> '/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir'
> Aug 28 16:37:57 liva2 lircd[9814]: lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: removed client
> Aug 28 16:37:57 liva2 lircd[9814]: lircd-0.9.1a[9814]: closing
> '/dev/input/by-path/pci-0000:00:14.0-usb-0:1:1.0-event-ir'
>
> But still no output from irw using an MCE remote. MCE config definitely in
> /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.
>

Is this helpful? (Potential conflict with HAL):
http://lirc.org/html/devinput.html

Karl
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