[mythtv-users] Problems after upgrading frontend from Mythbuntu 12.04 to 14.04

[Alec Leamas]

On 04/12/15 02:43, Phill Edwards wrote:
>     Well, if irw shows buttonpresses you are almost there.  The last piece
>     in the puzzle is lircrc, which maps the irw buttonpresses to
>     mythth-specific strings.
> 
>     Since yiu are upgrading, you should already have a lircrc file
>     available. The next test tool is ircat, which sort of mimics mythtv. Use
>     it like
>        $ ircat -c ~/.lircrc -mythtv
> 
> 
> Thanks for this. There's actually a syntax error here so thought I
> should just correct it for anyone looking at this in future. The command
> should be:
>  $ ircat --config=~/.lircrc mythtv

Indeed. But I did type really fast ;)


> Sadly, I'm still not getting any response to button presses when I run
> this and I have no idea why. 


Well, you have buttonpresses and a lircrc file. As long as the lircrc
file is OK this should work. Could you please post the output from irw
and your ~/.lircrc?

Cheers!

--alec