[Solved] Lirc not working with XBMC or Boxee after upgrade

[hallergard]

Had a smooth upgrade from 64-bit Lucid to Maverick. Before the upgrade the commands in Lircmap.xml were functioning, but not after. I have some other commands in the .lircrc file which still work for both XBMC and Boxee. XBMC is svn 32869 and boxee-0.9.22.13692.x86_64.

Tried to update XBMC but got this when reloading Synaptic:
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

Advice please

[claydoh]

Re: Lirc not working with XBMC or Boxee after upgrade

there have been some changes in lirc and the new kernel, don't know how that will affect things

the error you see is that probably the xbmc ppa folks have not yet done any maverick packages

[hallergard]

Re: Lirc not working with XBMC or Boxee after upgrade

Thanks. Found the problem. The upgrade changed my /etc/lirc/hardware.conf and took away the /dev/lircd. Solved this by letting autostart run this script:

#! /bin/sh
cd /dev
ln -s /var/run/lirc/lircd

[hallergard]

Re: [Solved] Lirc not working with XBMC or Boxee after upgrade

Actually the script does not always work from autostart, so I have had to run it again before starting xbmc or boxee. So went back to
my previous /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. Believe the important line is this one to create /dev/lircd:
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"