Re: irw works but ircat fails

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Hi!

"fug...@gm..." wrote:
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> Hello, I am having a peculiar problem. I have the following setup:
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> When I run irw and use the remote everything works fine and I get back the
> key presses that I would expect (rather I get three of them, but I
> understand this to be normal behavior).
> my ~/.lircrc file looks like the following (I truncated it for testing, but
> the behavior is the same either way):
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> button = DirectionUp # up

A button called "DirectionUp # up" does not exist in your lircd config.
This should be:
button = DirectionUp


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> When I run 'ircat mythtv' and try pressing the respective buttons, I get
> nothing.

Christoph