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., mythT

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 comp

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 /var/run/lirc/lircd path j