Re: irw works but ircat fails

[James E. <fug...@gm...>]

Yes!  Thanks you so much, that was exactly the problem.  I
didn't realize that comments were not allowed on that line (rather is just
never occurred to me).

Thanks again!
--J. Evans



> Date: 02 Jan 2009 14:04:00 +0100
> From: li...@ba... (Christoph Bartelmus)
> Subject: Re: irw works but ircat fails
> To: lir...@li...
> Message-ID: <At6aPRRJjFB@christoph>
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>
> Hi!
>
> "fug...@gm..." wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Hello, I am having a peculiar problem. I have the following setup:
> [...]
> > 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):
> [...]
> > button = DirectionUp # up
>
> A button called "DirectionUp # up" does not exist in your lircd config.
> This should be:
> button = DirectionUp
>
>
> [...]
> > When I run 'ircat mythtv' and try pressing the respective buttons, I get
> > nothing.
>
> Christoph
>