[mythtv-users] Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB

[Dave Pearson (Lists)]

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From: Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday 6th October 2018 0:54
To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Blasting to STB,using a MCEUSB

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:22 PM Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk <mailto:lists at the-pearsons.co.uk> > wrote:

 > On 5 Oct 2018, at 18:22, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz <mailto:stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> > wrote:
 > 
 >> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 16:59:46 +0100, you wrote:
 >> 
 >> I’m so close it hurts! 
 >> 
 >> Ok, so my ~/.lirc/mythtv file looks like this:
 >> 
 >> begin
 >>    remote = devinput-32
 >>    prog = mythtv
 >>    button = left
 >>    config = left
 >> end 
 >> 
 >> Etc.
 >> 
 >> My ~/.lircrc file looks like this:
 >> 
 >> include ~/.lirc/mythtv
 >> 
 >> And I can see the key presses in irw
 >> 
 >> I’ve restarted my front end and it’s still not working - there’s got to be something else, obvious, that I’m just not spotting - any ideas?
 >> 
 >> (Just noticed, this thread is actually about controlling a set top box, not controlling the frontend, sorry about hijacking it - this should have stayed in the other thread)
 >> 
 >> Regards,
 >> Dave
 > 
 > Shut down mythfrontend and try "ircat mythtv" from a command prompt
 > with the same user as mythfrontend is run from.  Does that show any
 > input from the remote?
 > 
 > Also, I have just done the 16.04 to 18.04.1 upgrade on my main MythTV
 > box, and for some reason the lirc update did not install the new
 > /etc/lirc/lircd.conf file.  Check if that happened to you.  It should
 > look like this:
 > 
 > # Populated config files can be found at http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes <http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes> .
 > The
 > # irdb-get(1) and lirc-setup(1) tools can be used to search and
 > download
 > # config files.
 > #
 > # From 0.9.2 config files could just be dropped as-is in the
 > lircd.conf.d
 > # directory and be included by this file.
 > 
 > include "lircd.conf.d/*.conf"
 > 
 > 
 > If it does not, then you need to do this from a root prompt:
 > 
 > cd /etc/lirc
 > cp -a lircd.conf.dist lircd.conf
 > 
 > If you want to keep the old lircd.conf, rename it first:
 > 
 > mv lircd.conf lircd.conf.16.04
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 Hi Stephen,

 ircat mythtv doesn’t show any input from the remote

 I do have a lircd.conf file in /etc/lirc

 Regards,
 Dave

Permissions on files possibly?  The entries in your config looks correct, but can they be read?  I am out of ideas here if ircat does not work.  What are the perms on /var/run/lirc/lircd also?

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Hi Greg



Permissions on /var/run/lirc/lircd:



dave at nuc1:/var/run/lirc$ ls -al
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   80 Oct  5 17:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 1080 Oct  6 07:26 ..
srw-rw-rw-  1 root root    0 Oct  5 17:06 lircd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    5 Oct  5 17:06 lircd.pid
 On ~/.lircrc & ~/.lirc:
 dave at nuc1:~$ ls .lirc* -al 
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dave dave   23 Oct  5 16:38 .lircrc 
 
.lirc: 
total 16 
drwxrwxr-x  2 dave dave 4096 Oct  5 05:14 . 
drwxr-xr-x 25 dave dave 4096 Oct  6 07:26 .. 
-rw-rw-r--  1 dave dave 4660 Oct  5 05:14 mythtv

mythfrontend appears to be connecting to the lircd socket and also reading the .lircrc config file:

Oct  5 19:48:29 nuc1 mythfrontend.real: mythfrontend[11534]: I CoreContext lirc.cpp:322 (Init) LIRC: Successfully initial
ized '/var/run/lirc/lircd' using '/home/dave/.lircrc' config


And yet still the control doesn't work!
 I'm almost at the point of rebuilding the frontend and starting again.
 Regards,
Dave.
 
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