i went on a bit of a rant here.
this post provides great information on how things have changed and the options available
as a result i managed to get my remote working again in mythtv using lirc (under wheezy).
Installed lirc, lirc-x and ir-keytable
used this for /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf looks like this (cat /etc/lirc/hardware.conf | grep -v "#")
Code:
LIRCD_ARGS=""
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER=""
DEVICE=""
MODULES=""
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
and I have the following lines in my /etc/rc.local
Code:
lircd -d /dev/lirc0 &
ir-keytable -p LIRC
i used this to create ~/.mythtv/lircrc (need to scroll down)
the reason i went for the lirc route is because i use mythmote on my android devices and that seems to need /var/run/lirc/lircd
the lirc daemon will try to load and fail
Code:
Sun Nov 3 02:16:58 2013: [....] Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC :^[[?25l^[[?1c^[7^[[1G[^[[31mFAIL^[[39;49m^[8^[[?25h^[[?0c ^[[31mfailed!^[[39;49m
root@milomak-mythtv:~# sed 's/\^\[/\E/g;s/\[1G\[/\[27G\[/' /var/log/boot | grep LIRC
Sun Nov 3 02:16:58 2013: [....] Loading LIRC modules:[?25l[?1c7[27G[[32m ok [39;49m8[?25h[?0c.
Sun Nov 3 02:16:58 2013: [....] Starting remote control daemon(s) : LIRC :[?25l[?1c7[27G[[31mFAIL[39;49m8[?25h[?0c [31mfailed
