LIRC works in MythTV but irw doesn't
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LIRC works in MythTV but irw doesn't
I am setting up a raspberry pi 3 as a front end and copied my config files from my Ubuntu FE/BE. I got the remote working in MythTV but want to set up the remote for mouse input and found that irw doesn't give any output for the remote keypresses that work in mythtv. Mode2 works. Maybe I am missing a file somewhere? I thought irw was more basic and would work if the end application worked.
Re: LIRC works in MythTV but irw doesn't
lircd.conf was transferred from another linux box (my FE/BE) with filezilla on a windows machine. In the transfer the end of line characters got changed to DOS in the transfer to the windows machine and then to MAC when going to the pi. Nano editor allows fixing this - the toggles for DOS and MAC formatting are toggles so if it defaults to saving in MAC format you can hit the key for MAC format (Alt-T for my version but I have seen other key combinations documented various places) to turn it off. Things now work as expected.
Some things that helped me figure this out:
Getting status of LIRC:
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc status
looking at the system log:
sudo tail -n 200 /var/log/syslog
Some things that helped me figure this out:
Getting status of LIRC:
sudo /etc/init.d/lirc status
looking at the system log:
sudo tail -n 200 /var/log/syslog