.lircrc not working -- are there alternatives?

    Hello,

    I am coming closer to a nice remote control setup, but one thing i missing right now.
    Under OE5, I was used to toggle my boblight-x11 binary on/off with the tiny python script. This one was launched by an entry in the .lircrc file, and the LEDs switched on/off upon a button click on the remote.

    It seems that there is no .lircrc file, and creating it both in ~/ and in ~/.config did not help either.
    Can somebody please tell me how to launch a script upon button click on my remote contol?

    Thank you.

    Kind regards,
    Marcus

    Quote from vpeter


    I have this file in /storage/.config/ and also start irexec in autostart.sh:

    Code
    /usr/bin/irexec -d /storage/.config/.lircrc &


    Seems to be working.

    Wow, thank you. I missed to start the irexec file, I thought that this was built into lirc directly instead of an separate executable.
    Now it works for me as well. Thank you.

    Hi,

    You can start irexec via systemd which provides the ability to automatically restart it if it crashes.

    /storage/.config/system.d/irexec.service

    Quote from teeedub


    Hi,

    You can start irexec via systemd which provides the ability to automatically restart it if it crashes.

    /storage/.config/system.d/irexec.service


    I've been using an autostart.sh file to start irexec for a while - I'd like to use systemd, but when I stick irexec.service in there it just doesn't start. If I run 'systemctl start irexec.service' in putty it starts up.
    Any ideas for how to troubleshoot that?

    My autostart.sh and irexec.service are both identical to the ones in this thread.