[SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

Labello · 2013-11-10 15:08:13

Hello everyone,

I have been fiddling around with a minimal Arch setup to just run XBMC. So I installed it and enabled the systemd service. Everything works just fine. So I installed lird and a self-compiled kernel module for the XboxDVDDongle which works just fine with lird, when I test it with 'irw'. But how can I tell XBMC to use my xbox dongle as input? Since I don't really know how to manually confgure XBMC because in standalone mode one does not have a '~/.xbmc' folder anywhere. I am a bitepuzzled here. Can anyone shed some light on this matter? Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Labello (2013-11-19 19:11:55)

IncredibleLaser · 2013-11-10 17:15:52

Labello wrote:

in standalone mode one does not have a '~/.xbmc' folder anywhere.

It does, check /var/lib/xbmc. It is $HOME of the xbmc user under which XBMC runs.

Labello · 2013-11-12 11:43:19

Thanks you for that! I did not know that, but it should have been easy to find this out -.-'

But still my problem persists after adding a remote.xml and a keymap.xml to the appropriate subfolders of /var/lib/xbmc as described in the archwiki. Still XBMC doesn't give a damn about my keystrokes on the remote. What am I missing? Is there any group the xbmc-user has to be added to, so that he can read from lirc - or something like this? Maybe I need to start lirc before XBMC?

Any help would be appreciated!

IncredibleLaser · 2013-11-12 15:20:16

I haven't been lucky with XBMC and using custom options for input devices as well. I use a remote that appears as a keyboard, but the volume keys don't repeat in XBMC. It's kinda picky there. On this notebook, my volume keys repeat, but not when running XBMC, which contradicts a statement by a dev that XBMC uses the system's settings for that. Tried various stuff but it didn't work.

tl;dr I had troubles with input devices in XBMC as well and gave up.

Labello · 2013-11-12 22:04:08

I should mention maybe that this lirc + xbox dongle + xbmc worked like a charm on Ubuntu right after compiling the custom kernel module for the xbox dongle. So I think that maybe I am just missing some stupid detail. I am not in the mood of giving up just yet. So any hints on this matter are still very welcome.

Labello · 2013-11-18 14:36:33

Bumping - nanyone?

aqtrans · 2013-11-19 10:35:10

I recently fussed with getting this working myself, and in my case apparently the issue lies in XBMC itself; it expects a /dev/lircd when there isn't one in newer LIRC versions such as Arch use.
Try copying the stock lirc.service to /etc/systemd/system/ and modifying it as follows:

[Unit]
Description=Linux Infrared Remote Control
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mkdir -p /run/lirc
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ln -sf /run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd
PIDFile=/run/lirc/lircd.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd --driver=default --device=/dev/lirc0 

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then try rebooting and/or restarting XBMC and the LIRC service.

Relevant bit is only this one.

ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ln -sf /run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd

I added the other ExecStartPre due to some odd issues with /run/lirc not being created like 1 out of every 10 boots, not entirely relevant to this specific issue.

Thanks go to this thread for the original solution!

Last edited by aqtrans (2013-11-19 10:39:37)

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#1 2013-11-10 15:08:13

[SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#2 2013-11-10 17:15:52

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#3 2013-11-12 11:43:19

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#4 2013-11-12 15:20:16

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#5 2013-11-12 22:04:08

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#6 2013-11-18 14:36:33

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

#7 2013-11-19 10:35:10

Re: [SOLVED] XBMC-standalone and LIRC

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