LIRC conf file location

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    Hi everyone, I'm controlling my Raspberry Pi using an MCE Infrared receiver from Philips because I have an old tv with no CEC support. With the MCE Philips remote everything works great, but I'd like to control it using the TV remote (Samsung).

    Looking through internet I found a lirc conf file for my samsung remote, but the "problem" that I had is that I can't put the lirc conf file in the dir: "/etc/lirc/", when I try to copy the file I get a "don't have permissions to write in that dir" message.

    I'm doing it via SSH with root user, so I should have permits right?

    Any help?, Is there another dir where I could copy the lirc conifg file?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Hi everyone, I'm controlling my Raspberry Pi using an MCE Infrared receiver from Philips because I have an old tv with no CEC support. With the MCE Philips remote everything works great, but I'd like to control it using the TV remote (Samsung).

    Looking through internet I found a lirc conf file for my samsung remote, but the "problem" that I had is that I can't put the lirc conf file in the dir: "/etc/lirc/", when I try to copy the file I get a "don't have permissions to write in that dir" message.

    I'm doing it via SSH with root user, so I should have permits right?

    Any help?, Is there another dir where I could copy the lirc conifg file?

    Thanks in advance.

    This should help: thread-2281.html