XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

slinkygn · 2013-10-29 02:44:20

Ever have one of those problems where you just *know* you're gonna feel stupid at the end?

So I pulled a pacman -Syu just a week or so ago, after not having done so for about a month, on my XBMC box. The update didn't upgrade XBMC or lirc -- and yet afterward, XBMC stopped recognizing commands from my remote. lirc seems to be fine; irw returns commands properly and everything. My Lircmap.xml file didn't change, and everything seemed to map correctly within the file -- though, after triple-checking it and still not understanding why XBMC refused to recognize it, I went ahead and recreated it anyway, just to make sure. I'm honestly not sure where to continue troubleshooting from here. Any advice, folks?

slinkygn · 2013-10-29 16:58:08

OK, update:
turns out that if I use RC-6:

echo rc-6 > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols

Then XBMC recognizes some basic keypresses, but it ignores the Lircmap.xml file (meaning most of my keys don't work, outside of directionals). ir-keytable -t also works. irw does not, unsurprisingly.

If I force LIRC:

echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols

Then irw works fine, but ir-keytable -t no longer does and XBMC doesn't either.

So it could be XBMC, or it could be that lirc used to create events in /dev/input/event* and no longer does.

ontin000 · 2013-10-30 00:14:55

I have the same issue, my remote no longer works with xbmc. I also don't have a /sys/class/rc folder, either. Not sure if I used to or not. Pretty frustrating experience, altogether.

ontin000 · 2013-11-03 16:55:09

I figured out my issue. Turns out my system was no longer creating a /dev/lircd. I had to edit my lirc.service file to create a symlink to /var/run/lirc/lircd, and obviously reload the daemon and xbmc. Everything is back to normal now. Hope this information is helpful. I'll post the changes to lirc.service below.

ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/ln -s /var/run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rm /dev/lircd

denn · 2013-11-08 21:10:24

lirc-utils has dropped support for /dev/lircd socket link starting from version 1:0.9.0-63. Bug filed for xbmc to switch to /var/run/lirc/lircd by default: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/37682

Labello · 2013-11-19 19:09:38

Thank you so much! You made my day! Great :3

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#1 2013-10-29 02:44:20

XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

#2 2013-10-29 16:58:08

Re: XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

#3 2013-10-30 00:14:55

Re: XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

#4 2013-11-03 16:55:09

Re: XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

#5 2013-11-08 21:10:24

Re: XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

#6 2013-11-19 19:09:38

Re: XBMC no longer recognizes IR commands

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