irrecord troubles

I am getting tired of this now!

If I record 1-2 keys I can terminate irrecord by presseng "enter" and it writes a .conf file for me. However, after I go through all 45 keys and press "enter" as instructed it sits there looking at me uniti I control-c out of it. This is about the 20th time going through 45 buttons.

If I rename the tmp file that does get written after control-c the file does not get read by LIRC, so I have no remote.

Milhouse 0717 and a few earlier versions since the new LIRC. LIRC 0.9.4, kernel 4.6.3

I did get it to work in "raw"(-f) 1 time, but one of the keys was corrupted.

What am I doing wrong; I'm getting carpal tunnel from this! (really).

While I'm here; what is the correct form for irrecord -u? I can't seem t6o make it work either.

Thank you all for your work!

OK, I'm the only one!

My solution was to start a copy of libreELEC 7.90.02 and use its irrecord 0.9.1 worked perfectly.

irrecord in lirc 0.9.4 evidently doesn't work on my RPi 1 B.

There is an update to 0.9.4 it is 0.9.4a, I wonder if that is the trouble. I couldn't figure out how to update it.

And, all of the tutorials are now factually wrong now. Now you don't need to specify the driver, it is default to /dev/lirc0. The format is "irrecord lircd.conf". You may need to rename the output file to "lircd.conf" then move it from /storage to /storage/.config.

Still a problem with Milhouse #719 and with LE 7.90.003.

I had a remote working fine except for limitations of the remote in 7.90.002. I downloaded and fresh installed to a new SD card, copied the lircd.conf and the config.txt to it. Now the enter key does nothing even renamed "select" or "enter" The "up & down" keys need spaces between them before they will repeat (that is important because of the aforementioned limitations of the remote). I have given up on the new irrecord, that's why I did not "upgrade" the 7.90.002 install to 7.90.003.

I have not tried this new remote in milhouse build yet. I might try with today's build.

I was just trying to figure out which to blame for the bad news lirc, libreelec or Kodi. Does not matter who is responsible, just who to complain to.

I sure wish that people who write "how-to" would update themselves. All of the lirc/irrecord tutorials ar for versions in the wayback machine, the option flags are not even right. End of that pet peeve.

Yes, aware that it is Alpha. But, I thought lirc was a completely different module from a different dev that seems to be broken. I thought the dev might want to investigate.

FWIW; irrecord 0.9.4 just doesn't work right; 0.9.1 works perfectly. Tried with different remotes. Lirc itself seems OK, except that the old tuts are wrong.

The good news is the lircd.conf produced by an earlier version works well.