On 07/01/17 03:55, Alec Leamas wrote:
Just syncing is of course the first, minimal step. But bottom line is that a lirc user could set the (typically secondary) device to anything, it's just a config file. So a compile-time setting will not make in the long run. Other apps e. g., mythTV has it as a runtime configuration, and that's the proper patch be it a part of a config file, the menu system or an environment variable.
Looking closer at kodi it turns out it has a -l /--lircdev CLI option. problem solved. This also means that thomas can walk-around the problem by configuring kodi instead of using the symlink.
Which means that the only thing thing required is to make kodi use /run/lirc/lircd as default, simplifying the normal usecase. I was mislead by the "hardcoded" statement. After all, nothing is hardcoded here, it's just a question of defaults.
--alec
