While I am sure LIRC has a lot of uses. I would wager 90% of its users are using kodi. At times it can be difficult to find a good howoto guide, that walks you through a freshly installed ubuntu system, to a working LIRC remote. I am very happy to have mine working again.
I forgot a couple steps, here was all of them: sudo apt purge ir-keytable lirc sudo apt-get install -y lirc lirc-compat-remotes sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc sudo irw sudo systemctl stop lircd-uinput.service sudo systemctl disable lircd-uinput.service also some discussion here: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=324727 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to lirc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788235 Title: lirc broken on 18.04 Status in lirc package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Lirc 0.10.0-2 is never configured after installation. Manually running "dpkg-reconfigure lirc " also does not do anything. I also noticed that /usr/share/lirc/remotes is empty, which is where I had my config file for Ubuntu 16.04. This was an upgrade install from 16.04. Searching the web indicates others have this problem. Some have reverted to the lirc from 16.04. Others recommend using pip3 to install lirc 0.10.10, but I have been unsuccessful so far. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1788235/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : mythbuntu-bugs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp