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[vdr] Re: Remote Control and LIRC trouble - should I use the Remote Control Plugin ?
On Dienstag, 14. September 2004 16:57, christian jacobsen wrote:
> I sometimes have trouble using my remote control with the build in LIRC
> support. It simply does not react anylonger :( If I start irw from the
> LIRC package I see that lircd gets the keypresses, so it must be
> something with VDR. And after some time VDR reacts again! It mostly
> happens when VDR was not used for some time.
>
> Maybe it is the problem that (IIRC) svdrp and lirc can't work at the
> same time !?
>
> So I was wondering if it would be better if one used the LIRC support in
> the Remote control ?
>
> Any experience ?
Sorry, there is no difference whether you use LIRC support of vdr or
the LIRC feature of the remote plugin.
> Can it be used while using svdrp at the same time ?
>
> I get an error that the remote plugin could not connect to /dev/lircd
> (vdr was running as root so it is not rights related), what could be the
> trouble ?
LIRC support is broken in Remote plugin 0.3.0, 0.3.1 and 0.3.1a
This patch should fix it:
--- /tmp/remote-0.3.1a/remote.c Fri Sep 10 13:05:46 2004
+++ remote.c Sun Aug 29 03:10:01 2004
@@ -687,6 +692,15 @@ bool cPluginRemote::Start(void)
{
switch (devtyp[i])
{
+#ifdef REMOTE_FEATURE_LIRC
+ case 'l':
+ fh[i] = access(devnam[i], R_OK);
+ break;
+#endif
+ case 'p':
+ fh[i] = 0;
+ break;
+
case 'T':
fh[i] = open(devnam[i], O_RDWR);
break;
@@ -694,10 +708,6 @@ bool cPluginRemote::Start(void)
default:
fh[i] = open(devnam[i], O_RDONLY);
break;
-
- case 'p':
- fh[i] = 0;
- break;
}
if (fh[i] < 0)
This patch will be included in Remote 0.3.2.
HTH
Oliver
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