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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1788235 Title: lirc broken on 18.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc/+bug/1788235/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs