[mythtv-users] Remote and blaster without LIRC?

[Don Brett]

On 5/24/2019 12:07 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2019 16:31:35 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> On 24/05/2019 11:42, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>
>>> You need to run lirc-setup (I think it needs to be run as root) and
>>> tell it to download the MCE remote config file (devinput)
>> Nope, you cannot use devinput if your are going to blast, it's an
>> input-only driver. The default driver (which has a silly name) is
>> probably what you want.
>>
>>
>>> The lirc_options.conf file is largely unchanged - just check that it
>>> says "driver = devinput".
>> As I said earlier, it's probably driver  = default. The device is then
>> usually /dev/lirc0.
>>
>>
>>> The next LIRC config file is:
>>>
>>> root at mypvr:/etc/lirc# cat lircd.conf
>>> # Populated config files can be found at http://sf.net/p/lirc-remotes.
>>> The
>>> # irdb-get(1) and lirc-setup(1) tools can be used to search and
>>> download
>>> # config files.
>> lirc-setup has had a nasty debian packaging bug making it crash directly
>> when invoked. It's fixed in Debian, but Ubuntu which lags behind might
>> still be affected. There is a workaround in an Ubuntu bug[1].
>>
>>
>> Cheers!
>> --alec
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1788235/comments/26
> My script (see earlier on this thread) has a fix for most of the
> problems with the Ubuntu LIRC packaging.
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Thanks everyone, I'll give this a try tomorrow morning,

Don



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