[mythtv-users] Trying To Get Two IR Receivers Working

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/15/2015 1:52 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> I'm now a bit mystified. You get output from ir-keytable but `cat
> /dev/input/event9` gives nothing? That sounds contradictory as
> ir-keytable works through the event node!?

I was mistaken. I am getting output.

>
> Also earlier in the thread you were talking about event11 through 13

I was reading something else from the connect messages. The symlinks 
under /dev/input are to event9.

>
> One other thing. I have all the time assumed you have them connected
> together. Right?
> If you run lircd more then once, you have to tell each instance how to
> name the socket and the symlink in /dev to it or the second will
> overwrite cq conflict with the first. The default is:
> /var/run/lirc/lircd and /dev/lircd as the symlink to it.
> So probably in your lirc_options.conf you have to have something like
> socket=/var/run/lirc/lircd0 and
> socket=/var/run/lirc/lircd1 for the two devices
> or if you can add options:
> --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd0 and
> --output=/var/run/lirc/lircd1
>

Right now, with ir-keytable and cat, I am running (at Alec's suggestion) 
with lircd turned off.