Posts by Cayford Burrell

Thanks Hias. I found the error. One of the threads here had a mention of changing lirc-rpi to gpio-rpi, but else where it says gpio-ir. I made that change in config.txt and the remote works again! Thanks!

-- Cayford

Hi. I updated to Kodi 9.2, from 7.x. Yes, indeed, it's been a few years since I updated Kodi and LIbreelec. It seems Lirc has changed, and my remote is not working any more. I found one item, /flash/config.txt has to load a different driver, gpio-rpi. I made that change, rebooted, but no luck.

My setup is a RPI2, IR receiver plugged into the GPIO pin 18. I've set up the Lircd.conf, keymaps, etc to map IR button presses from a TIVO remote to commands I send to a Kodi Plugin Service. That code can talk to the other devices, BlueRay, Tivo, AppleTV4k, Pioneer AVR, TV etc. It turns the AVR on/off when it sees the TV itself turned on or off.

But with the update, none of the button presses make it through.

Trying to troubleshoot, with info and suggestions from the WIKI on Infrared Remotes, and on a few threads here:

Running "ps axl | grep lirc" shows 3 processes running-- eventlircd, lircd, and lircd-uinput

LibreELEC:~ # ps axl | grep lirc
  260 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/eventlircd -f --evmap=/etc/eventlircd.d --socket=/run/lirc/lircd
  446 root      0:01 /usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon /storage/.config/lircd.conf
  447 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd-uinput --add-release-events
  664 root      0:00 grep lirc
LibreELEC:~ # 

Checking on those command line args, I see that the file /etc/eventlircd.d does not exist. Hmmmm a clue! The socket /run/lirc/lircd seems to exist.

Running "ir-keytable" shows errors: /sys/class/rc/: No such file or directory, and No devices found

Running "mode2" shows errors: Using driver default on device /dev/lirc0 Cannot initiate device /dev/lirc0.

Running "irw" just hangs.

Interesting--- looking in /dev, indeed there is nothing named lirc0 or lirc*.

Running "dmesg | grep lirc", I see 2 lines:

[    9.521584] input: lircd-uinput as /devices/virtual/input/input4
[    9.757850] input: eventlircd as /devices/virtual/input/input5

Running "tail /flash/config.txt" shows I'm loading the Overlay: dtoverlay=gpio-rpi I made that change today, from lirc to gpio, rediscovering how to make /flash read+write.

Checking the file /storage/.config/lircd.conf, it is the same file as before the upgrade.

Checking /storage/.kodi/userdata/Lircmap.xml, it is also the same as before the upgrade.

Checking the files in /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps, and remotes.xml is still there too.

Running "tail -f /Storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log" with Debug turned on normally shows every IR button press, and what it's mapped to. This gives nothing.

I'm attaching the kodi.log and the output of dmesg. In that you can see my two service scripts, "script.service.power-sync" (Works fine, uses CEC), and script.service.translate_keys.

I'm guessing LibreElec has moved from "lirc" to "ir_keytables", and I'm missing the thing that says "use the old LIRC".

Hoping someone has the one last configuration file change and it all comes back to life!

Thanks in advance.

Ok thanks.

I'm converting over from OpenElec to LibreElec on a Pi2. I'm looking for info on how plugins have changed. I have a plugin service that maps Tivo Remote buttons to Kodi commands OR sends commands to other devices like the AVR, BlueRay, Amazon Fire etc. It stopped working when I jumped to LibreElec. Is there info somewhere on what has to change in the addon python code?

I get errors on "import xbmc". Changed that to "import kodi". That worked, but the next line "import xbmcgui" and then "import xbmcaddon" fail. Do I change all references to XBMC over to kodi?

Thanks

-- Cayford