Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-07 Thread Thomas Renard
> 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. Yes and that is the way I do it right now. This is for me the save way to solve future changes.

Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-07 Thread Alec Leamas
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

Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-06 Thread Alec Leamas
On 07/01/17 02:57, Bálint Réczey wrote: Hi, A proper fix for this needs to be something accepted by upstream, I guess. Kodi's build system allows setting the default device through a ./configure option thus I think this does not have to be upstreamed. Do you mean upstreaming a more

Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-06 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2017-01-06 21:27 GMT+01:00 Alec Leamas : > On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:27:05 +0100 Thomas Renard wrote: > >> >> kodi is hard coded to the wrong "device" path to lirc. >> The binary tries /dev/lircd but the "device" (which is a socket!) >> can be found at

Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-06 Thread Alec Leamas
On Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:27:05 +0100 Thomas Renard wrote: > > kodi is hard coded to the wrong "device" path to lirc. > The binary tries /dev/lircd but the "device" (which is a socket!) > can be found at /var/run/lirc/lircd. Hi! lirc maintainer speaking... note that the

Bug#850467: kodi: Wrong "device" path for lirc

2017-01-06 Thread Thomas Renard
Package: kodi Version: 2:17.0~beta6+dfsg1-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, kodi is hard coded to the wrong "device" path to lirc. The binary tries /dev/lircd but the "device" (which is a socket!) can be found at /var/run/lirc/lircd. - write ~/.kodi/userdata/Lircmap.xml according to working