[mythtv-users] lirc working in mythtv but not xine?

[Alec Leamas]

On 03/04/16 19:44, Tom Dexter wrote:
> I've got one I can't figure out. I'm running Gentoo. The current
> c at all. The
> lirc support is still compiled into xine.
>
> When mythtv starts I get this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr  3 13:13:08 mythfront lircd-0.9.2a[975]: Notice: accepted new
> client on /var/run/lirc/lircd

OK, so we are on 0.9.2a.

> I get this running ircat as the mythtv user for either xine
> or mythtv:
>
> ircat xine
> do_connect: could not connect to socket
> connect: No such file or directory
>
> ircat mythtv
> do_connect: could not connect to socket
> connect: No such file or directory

Hm... looks like it doesn't find the socket. As of 0.9.2, the handling 
of the  socket path is far from consistent in ircat.

Looking at the code it looks like 0.9.2a support the LIRC_SOCKET_PATH 
environment variable to determine the socket used. What happens if you 
set this to the socket path you are using before invoking ircat?


Cheers!

--alec