irw cannot connect to socket

tornadijs · December 20, 2017 at 2:18 PM

good morning, i'm having an issue here with the latest libreelec version. i've successfully setup the IR keytable to see the signals from my remote via infrared receiver connected to gpio pin 22. and i am trying to pass them to kodi to run a shell sctips when i press a key on my remote, however, everytime i try start irw i got this:

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# irw /run/lircd/lircd

Cannot connect to socket /run/lircd/lircd: No such file or directory

i assume this is why kodi does not get any keypresses from ir-keytable as irw does not work? can please anyone help?

**HiassofT** · December 20, 2017 at 2:25 PM

The socket is named /run/lirc/lircd, not /run/lircd/lircd. You can simply run "irw", as it will use /run/lirc/lircd per default.

See this wiki page for more info: infrared_remotes [LibreELEC]

so long,

Hias

tornadijs · December 20, 2017 at 3:10 PM

sorry, pasted the wrong output. my initial issue that irw produces this output:

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irw

Cannot connect to socket //run/lirc/lircd: No such file or director

and yes, i've seen this page like 1000 of times already. i am trying to troubleshoot as per the secion of this page, but i am stuck at the point where it asks me to try irw.

**HiassofT** · December 20, 2017 at 3:16 PM

Check if eventlircd is running - if you stopped eventlircd that socket won't be there. run "systemctl start eventlircd" or reboot.

so long,

Hias

tornadijs · December 20, 2017 at 3:22 PM

thanks, this is what runnin eventlircd gives out:

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systemctl start eventlircd

Failed to start eventlircd.service: Unit eventlircd.service is masked

reboot does not help as well

tornadijs · December 20, 2017 at 3:28 PM

so i figured it out myself. had to unmask the eventlircd service with this command -

systemctl unmask eventlircd.service and reboot

thank you, now irw works.