Re: AW: Fedora 10 (Mythdora) 10.21 and Haupauge Remote from TV Card

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 16:39, Bernd Kopka wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 13.01.2009, 14:40 -0500 schrieb Jarod Wilson:
>> On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 08:25 +0100, Bernd Kopka wrote:
>>>
>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Jarod Wilson [mailto:ja...@wi...]
>>> Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2009 22:11
>>> An: lir...@li...
>>> Betreff: Re: Fedora 10 (Mythdora) 10.21 and Haupauge Remote from  
>>> TV Card
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:48 +0100, Bernd Kopka wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I installed Mythora 10 (Fedora 10) with a Haugauge WinTV with the  
>>>> grey
>>>> remote. I build my own lircd.conf and lircrc. I start lirc within  
>>>> the
>>>> rc.local with
>>>>
>>>> lircd –driver=devinput –device=/dev/input/event7.
>>>>
>>>> So far so good. When irw is started I get the codes on the  
>>>> screen, but
>>>> they are not recognized from mythtv or vlc. Mythtv tells during
>>>> startup that it has read the lircrc file, no error message. What  
>>>> can I
>>>> do?
>>>
>>> Fix your lircrc. Sounds like the button names in your lircd.conf  
>>> don't
>>> match the button names in your lircrc.
>>>
>>> --jarod
>>>
>>> Theses are parts of the last used lircd.conf and .lircrc. I think,  
>>> the key
>>> definitions are correct, may there any error, but not the whole  
>>> lircrc is bad.
>>
>> Okay, yeah, config files look appropriate. Where are you putting your
>> lircrc file exactly?
>>
>> MythTV expects it at ~/.mythtv/lircrc, other apps expect it at
>> ~/.lircrc, so my only guess right now is that its not in the place
>> things are expecting to find it.
>>
>> --jarod
>
> ~/lircrc is a link to ~/mythtv/lircrc. So this should be ok. The lirc
> version is 0.84.

As Jay pointed out, those should be ~/.lircrc and ~/.mythtv/lircrc,  
not ~/lircrc and ~/mythtv/lircrc. Both of those should be tilde-slash- 
dot, not tilde-slash. The dots are essential.

> With Mythdora 5 it works.

Not with the config you describe above it doesn't... :)

> Is it a possibility to install lirc 0.83?

Sure, but I'm pretty sure that ain't the problem.



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Jarod Wilson
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