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I am currently trying to write some code for using a remote control with a Raspberry Pi 3.

I installed LIRC according to a tutorial and it does work, but:

In the /etc/lirc/hardware.conf I have a line:

DRIVER="default"

but when I run mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 it says: Using driver devinput on device /dev/lirc0, which is giving wrong me the output.

I suspect this is also the reason why irw shows nothing when I run it and press buttons on my remote.

When I run mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 -H default it works just fine, but I can't specifiy that when running irw. (Or anything else that depends on LIRC)

Why is LIRC ignoring the DRIVER-line?

Silver_Bear
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It depends on the lirc version; the debian packaging is part of the issue.

lirc as of 0.9.0, a really old version, has been part of debian for a (too) long time while the project has advanced. The hardware.conf file is part of the debian packaging of 0.9.0 (it has never been part of the upstream project).

Some years (2?) debian finally took the step to modernize lirc, and as part of this the hardware.conf file is not used, replaced by several files. lirc_options.conf is one of them. This makes lirc on debian work ín the same way as other distributions.

The official guide to lirc configuration is http://lirc.org/html/configuration-guide.html. Please disregard anything involving hardware.conf if your lirc is beyond 0.9.0 - it is by definition docs broken beyond repair.

leamas
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  • Yes, as I wrote in my own answer, I found that LIRC igores the `hardware.conf` (however I didn't know why, thank you for clarifying the version dependency). It is really annoying that there are a lot of tutorials out there which teach the `hardware.conf`-way altough it's not working at all anymore. – Silver_Bear Jan 28 '18 at 14:39
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I found out why the standard driver was not default but devinput:

It seems the driver for LIRC to use isn't actually to be specified in hardware.conf but in /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf.

If I now run mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 it uses default as driver.

However, this didn't, as I hoped, resolve my issues with irw.

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