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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Mike,

Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 11:08:04 AM, you wrote:

> On 06/04/16 02:19, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hoi Tom,
>>>
>>>
>>>> It took me a while to figure out that I needed to set that
>>>> LIRC_SOCKET_PATH in the mythtv ~/.xinitrc file...but yea that did it!
>>>
>>>> I find it highly strange that I had to do that however and that
>>>> something there wasn't smart enough to use the default socket path.
>>>> That seems just a little nuts.
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>> Tom
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>>> There should be a simlink /dev/lircd to /var/run/lirc/lircd that as
>>> far as I know is used by default. Possibly that simlink is missing or
>>> wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tot mails,
>>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>
>>
>> Everything looks good there:
>>
>> ll /dev/lircd
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr  5 20:37 /dev/lircd -> /var/run/lirc/lircd
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tom
>>
> Um, that's the permission on the /link/. Have you done "ls /var/run/lirc/lircd"?

It worked when he pointed strait to /var/run/lirc/lircd. So that
should be OK!

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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