[Freevo-users] Pylirc

[Robert Kortenoeven]

Hi all,

I've got Freevo up and running (again), but no luck with getting Lirc
to work. It keeps complaining about pylirc (WARNING: PyLirc not found,
lirc remote control disabled!). I followed the documentation on the Freevo
website to get lirc working and that's running fine with the lircrc file.
Is the pylirc module installed by freevo? A search on my system does not
come up with any results.

If I try to install pylirc from the tar archive I get the following error (after entering
'python setup.py install'):

pylircmodule.c:280: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:65: Error: symbol `intInitialized' is already defined
{standard input}:103: Error: symbol `intSocket' is already defined
{standard input}:116: Error: symbol `intBlocking' is already defined
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

These are the last 6 lines of the output. What do I make of this? And if I manage to
install pylirc, what do I do next? I read that the module has to be initialised using
<x-tad-bigger>integer = pylirc.init(string name[, string configuration])
</x-tad-bigger>I remember doing that during an earlier Freevo installation, but I want to be sure I
get things right.

Can anyone help me out on this one? Pylirc documentation on the web is very poor
and I had lots of trouble with this one during my last freevo installation as well.
Maybe an idea to add a bit of text on pylirc to the lirc documentation section on the
Freevo website?


Any help is greatly appreciated,

Robert