Activity for LIRC

Gernot Walzl posted a comment on ticket #389

Gernot Walzl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:58:20 -0000

Then, my bug description becomes a feature request :-)

Bengt Martensson posted a comment on ticket #389

Bengt Martensson — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:20:32 -0000

The man page lircd.conf(5) says: LIRC was designed to collect IR data and save it in a private, compact, yet human readable format with the purpose of being able to re-transmit (or re-recognize) these signals. It was not designed with the goal of providing a well documented and tested configuration file format that could be used e.g., to generate arbitrary IR signals or to convert them to other formats. The configuration file should thus not be considered a public interface to LIRC. So if you are...

Gernot Walzl posted a comment on ticket #389

Gernot Walzl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:43:41 -0000

Thanks for the fast reply :-) Sorry for the detailed explanation. Let me rephrase it to a bug: I have a remote for a Philips TV. When I press the volume up key on this remote, mode2 shows an RC-6 signal (pulses and spaces) with a payload of 0x0010. Unfortunately, irrecord always creates a config file with flags RC6 and 0x...FFEF for the volume up key. Suspected issue: Receiving RC-6 signals in LIRC does not correctly decode Manchester encoded signals. Receiving in LIRC does not distinguish between...

Bengt Martensson posted a comment on ticket #389

Bengt Martensson — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:42:53 -0000

This is not a ticket in the formal sense -- it does not describe a bug/misbehavior nor a suggested improvement -- so it can be just closed. Rather it is an attempt to understand. I will try to give some (hopefully) helpful suggestions next. Trying to use Lirc to understand IR protocols is not a good idea. May I suggest that you try IrScrutinizer instead? You probably already have a /dev/lirc* device, so in IrScrutinizer select that device as "hardware". Thus you can capture and decode IR signal from...

Gernot Walzl created ticket #389

Gernot Walzl — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:05:25 -0000

Inverted RC-6 decoding

Sean Young modified ticket #386

Sean Young — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:35:47 -0000

Issue with SONY12.lircd.conf and SONY20.lircd.conf — Incorrect bits and pre_data_bits configuration

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #386

Sean Young — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:35:46 -0000

For SIRC 12-bit, use: bits="12" and pre-bits="12" For SIRC 15-bit, use: bits="15" and pre-bits="15" For SIRC 20-bit, use: bits="20" and pre-bits="20" The lircd.conf files are fine. To me it sounds like there is a bug in the IRplus android app.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #364

Sean Young — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:08:23 -0000

TBH, I am in two minds about this. There are a few more bugs I want to fix, and I'd like to do a 0.10.3 release. I hope that will be some time this year. I'll continue to do merge bug fixes but it will be sporadic, just it has been in the past. Not really fast paced so it's fine where it is. On the other, hand gitlab is pretty nice and allows us to things like CI. You can set the project to be moved on sourceforge, so the existing URLs to lirc will just redirect to the new gitlab. We would also need...

Neustradamus posted a comment on ticket #364

Neustradamus — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:57:03 -0000

@seanyoung: Thanks for your answer. For me, there are more developers on GitHub. You can create a mirror to link GitHub and Gitlab :)

Bengt Martensson posted a comment on ticket #364

Bengt Martensson — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:04:36 -0000

Given the not very active state of the project, and the lack of planned future developments, the smartest thing may be to just keep it as it is. Think of how many links on the Internet that will break. For example lirc.org... But in the end, I think that the ones who are active (Sean?) should decide.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #364

Sean Young — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:42:27 -0000

I think we're in agreement that gitlab would be preferable to github. gitlab is open source infrastructure and github is not.

Neustradamus posted a comment on ticket #364

Neustradamus — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:54:11 -0000

I propose to the team to move on GitHub, it is possible? Thanks in advance.

Sean Young modified ticket #382

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:03:18 -0000

Making LIRC for RasPi 4, 64bit RaspOS Fails, and ./configuration Options

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #382

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:03:18 -0000

The issue: First, the Failure: ./doc/index.html is linked to the non-existent: ./doc/html/index.html The correct link seems to be to ./doc/html-source/index.html Has been resolved by commit https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/468ed28dbe1caaa86c052fe5fe02e55f2d1c4ca3/ lircd can only control a single device, so what you are trying to do is impossible. set_transmitters only works for a single IR device with multiple output.

Sean Young modified ticket #310

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:49:59 -0000

loglevel/debug configuration mess

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #310

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:49:59 -0000

Fixed in commit https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/34822d2f8cea5e20d42576f57b854e55c30b68a8/

Sean Young committed [34822d] on Git

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:49:02 -0000

Use loglevel from lirc_options.conf, not debug

Sean Young modified ticket #357

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:56:18 -0000

lircd sends client infinite repeats on first first few ir events

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #357

Sean Young — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:56:18 -0000

We need a lot more information to track this down. What is your lircd.conf file, what remote are you using? Your ubuntu version and lircd is rather old so please reopen this issue if you are still having problems with the latest version of lirc.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #364

Sean Young — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:48:34 -0000

I am all for moving lirc to gitlab. We can get hosting on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ Any objections to moving the repo?

Sean Young committed [1ecc39] on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:36:39 -0000

Merge /u/dnsmcbr/lirc/ branch irtoy_macfixes into master

Sean Young merged merge request #56 on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:36:35 -0000

Namespace commonly named functions to allow compilation on macos

Sean Young committed [468ed2] on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:17:16 -0000

Fix dangling symlink

Sean Young committed [3dd96b] on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:17:16 -0000

Remove obsolete autoconf macros

Richard Fontaine created merge request #56 on Git

Richard Fontaine — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:00:51 -0000

Namespace commonly named functions to allow compilation on macos

Sean Young posted a comment on merge request #55

Sean Young — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:26:42 -0000

Thank you very much!

Sean Young committed [235155] on Git

Sean Young — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:21:02 -0000

Merge /u/heitbaum/lirc/ branch const into master

Sean Young merged merge request #55 on Git

Sean Young — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:20:55 -0000

retain const qualifier from pointer

Rudi Heitbaum created merge request #55 on Git

Rudi Heitbaum — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 07:04:29 -0000

retain const qualifier from pointer

Sean Young modified ticket #116

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:24:41 -0000

RFE: Create XML filters

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #116

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:24:41 -0000

This is not a feature we intend to implement. Sure, a new format might be great but XML comes with many of its own problems. That's not the answer.

Sean Young modified ticket #173

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:21:57 -0000

IR receiver refuses to work on a new hardware

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #173

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:21:57 -0000

Fixed in the kernel years ago

Sean Young modified ticket #313

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:16:13 -0000

Endless loop when disconnecting irtoy at runtime

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #313

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:16:13 -0000

lirc assumes that the hardware is there and does not disappear. I don't think doing an exit in drivrer code is correct. The main event poll loop should realise there is nothing it is waiting for and simply exit the loop. Fixing this correctly requires re-writing a lot of code. Patches are welcome but as lirc is really in bug-fix only mode this is more than we are willing to do.

Sean Young modified ticket #355

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:08:46 -0000

mplay.c control flow error prevents proper device initialization

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #355

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:08:46 -0000

Fixed by https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/ee807c63ea43642b5292a9f953fe50babfdc1df2/

Sean Young modified ticket #388

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:56:18 -0000

udev rule breaks operating systems

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #388

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:56:18 -0000

Fixed in https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc/git/ci/0dd49bacb6ecc6c3dbd72228bdbdfe9c8e577272/

Sean Young committed [0dd49b] on Git

Sean Young — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:36:30 -0000

Use /bin/sh rather than /usr/bin/sh

David Chmelik posted a comment on ticket #388

David Chmelik — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:31:34 -0000

On 1/6/26 2:12 PM, Sean Young wrote: How do I reproduce this issue? Install on any GNU/Linux only using standard /bin/sh. Insert USB devices such as small wi-fi, bluetooth adapters. What distribution do I use and how do install lirc? Slackware GNU/Linux, for example. You can follow your own instructions or use (as root/sudo) SlackBuild package building script (which follows your instructions): http://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/system/lirc/ . Afterwards (as root) installpkg /tmp/lirc*z . I recall...

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #388

Sean Young — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:12:21 -0000

How do I reproduce this issue? What distribution do I use and how do install lirc? I'd like to make sure your fix actually works. This path has been in use way even before usr-merge became a thing, I think.

David Chmelik created ticket #388

David Chmelik — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:52:49 -0000

udev rule breaks operating systems

Ximin Luo created merge request #54 on Git

Ximin Luo — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:36:07 -0000

lircd.service must depend on lircd.socket, otherwise starting the former fails to recreate the socket file

Sean Young committed [e3c8fa] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:19:54 -0000

lirc_log: Ensure that log_perror_err(NULL) is handled correctly

Sean Young committed [a5aa7f] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:19:54 -0000

plugins/devinput: Report error when unable to read from input device

Sean Young committed [eec331] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:46:54 -0000

Remove compiler warnings

Sean Young committed [012ed0] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:46:54 -0000

Remove compiler warnings

Sean Young modified ticket #387

Sean Young — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:11:33 -0000

Monual Moncaso IR (mplay) corrupted by merge error

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #387

Sean Young — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:11:32 -0000

Thank you

womiha posted a comment on ticket #387

womiha — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:02:58 -0000

Here is my test report. TL;DR: The bugfix makes the plugin work again. However, I had to manually patch some makefiles (problems with include paths, unevaluated variables). All below here is my test log... The local working copy looks as follows: easyvdr@easyVDR:/opt/lirc$ git show commit ee807c63ea43642b5292a9f953fe50babfdc1df2 (HEAD -> testfix, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Author: Wolfgang Hauck Date: Sun Aug 3 20:34:55 2025 +0100 Partial revert of commit 00e11da0ea30ce83cb9472bfd01c9f72f589bebc...

womiha posted a comment on ticket #387

womiha — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:57:45 -0000

Sean, thank you for considering my report. I am going to test the fix. Please give me a week until I get back to you. See you soon, Wolfgang.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #387

Sean Young — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:43:14 -0000

I've committed your fix. Please can you make sure the lirc code in git works correctly for you, there are have been other changes too which are not in 0.10.1. Many thanks, Sean

Sean Young committed [ee807c] on Git

Sean Young — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:42:13 -0000

Partial revert of commit 00e11da0ea30ce83cb9472bfd01c9f72f589bebc

womiha posted a comment on ticket #387

womiha — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:03:25 -0000

Hi Sean, thanks for your quick reaction. The version from 0.10.1 definitely does not work. I am forced to use that version, as it comes with Ubuntu "20.04 focal" from easyVDR 5. A long, long time ago I published a patch in an Ubuntu forum. Somewhen somebody somehow made the patch available to LIRC. I think, the patch first appeared in 0.9.3 (see below). There, it works. So, I am not sure about the merge history. Please bare with me, I am neither familiar with SourceForge nor with the project structure...

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #387

Sean Young — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:57:50 -0000

Looking at the git history, I can't see a merge error. What I can see is that you are suggesting a revert of commit 00e11da0ea30ce83cb9472bfd01c9f72f589bebc, right? Having said all that the control flow in this function is .. unusual. I can see that in each else if (...) another part is executed of the happy path, and the body is only executed on error; on success we go to the next else if. So that commit does look broken. That make sure that is right, can you say what goes wrong - and what error...

womiha created ticket #387

womiha — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:45:10 -0000

Monual Moncaso IR (mplay) corrupted by merge error

Bruno Magenta Joga created ticket #386

Bruno Magenta Joga — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 11:52:32 -0000

Issue with SONY12.lircd.conf and SONY20.lircd.conf — Incorrect bits and pre_data_bits configuration

Jim Kaiser posted a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:12:41 -0000

Thanks for the 10.2 referral. Sorry for veering off a bit here. I've seen set_transmitters. What I don't understand is how to define multiple devices and drivers in (presumably) lirc_options.conf. I suppose those would be transmitter 1 2, etc. based on the order defined? I may also need to connect to another upstream machine. Here's my conf file. [lircd] nodaemon = False driver = usb_uirt_raw #devinput device = /dev/serial/by-id/usb-FTDI_USB-UIRT-if00-port0 #auto output = /var/run/lirc/lircd pidfile...

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #382

Sean Young — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:59:01 -0000

Looks like you are running debian oldstable. Trixie has lirc 0.10.2, so if you move to that version you will get lirc 0.10.2. You can set the transmitters with irsend set_transmitters ....

Jim Kaiser modified a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:33:18 -0000

Here's what I see for that library: sudo apt list | grep libsystemd-dev librust-libsystemd-dev/oldstable 0.2.1-2 arm64 librust-libsystemd-dev/oldstable 0.2.1-2 armhf libsystemd-dev/oldstable-security 247.3-7+deb11u6 arm64 libsystemd-dev/oldstable-security 247.3-7+deb11u6 armhf I guess the library's installed. Maybe there's a permissions issue? I need to use sudo a lot. Anyway, as per my 2023-10-14 note above. I got it working. Actually, the IR messages are generated on an upstream ubuntu x86 machine...

Jim Kaiser modified a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:28:53 -0000

Jim Kaiser modified a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:27:19 -0000

Jim Kaiser modified a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:22:44 -0000

Jim Kaiser posted a comment on ticket #382

Jim Kaiser — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:20:45 -0000

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #319

Sean Young — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:14:40 -0000

Actually it turns out, receive did not implement this. I've fixed the receive side in commit 1dc29314729f193b148d10f4ac575582d303ab24

Sean Young committed [1dc293] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:11:25 -0000

Receive does not parse post without post_data and pre without pre_data

Sean Young modified ticket #319

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:34:25 -0000

'pre' and 'post' in *.conf is ignored if no 'pre_data', 'post_data'

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #319

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:34:25 -0000

Fixed in commit 52550a56db638d521ddcb5ba6bc20389acf5f178

Sean Young committed [df9bf6] on Git

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:34:06 -0000

Fix typo

Sean Young committed [52550a] on Git

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:34:06 -0000

Transmit pre when no pre_data is present, and post with no post_data

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #319

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:29:29 -0000

Actually, I think the code is buggy. For receive, the pre is parsed if there are no pre_bits, same for post without any post bits. So, transmit is buggy compared to receive. This should be fixed.

Sean Young modified ticket #334

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:24:43 -0000

10.1: fails to build sometimes with parallel make

Sean Young modified a comment on ticket #319

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:23:42 -0000

I've tested this and fixing this doesn't break any lircd.conf file I can have. I think it makes sense to fix it - it's just very unexpected, I think.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #319

Sean Young — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:23:27 -0000

I've tested this and fixing this doesn't break and lircd.conf file I can have. I think it makes sense to fix it - it's just very unexpected, I think.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #382

Sean Young — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:07:14 -0000

Looks like you don't have systemd development libraries installed - lircd should send ready notifications to systemd, but only if HAVE_SYSTEMD is set by ./configure Do you have the libsystemd-dev package installed and what is the output of ./configure?

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #334

Sean Young — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:14:23 -0000

I understand that usually a dependency is missing when parallel make fails. However, I don't understand how that helps with resolving this ticket. I can't reproduce the problem so I can't fix it.

Bengt Martensson posted a comment on ticket #334

Bengt Martensson — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:06:37 -0000

I do not care for Lirc anymore, but I do have extensive experience with parallel make. I have learned that "parallel make fails" always (?) means that the dependencies are incomplete. Complete the dependencies and parallel make will succed.

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #334

Sean Young — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:58:19 -0000

I can't reproduce this problem. Is this still an issue?

Sean Young committed [aaf355] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:36:06 -0000

audio_alsa: Fix memory leak

Sean Young modified ticket #363

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:35:41 -0000

Forgetting to free the allocated memory of `snd_device_name_get_hint()` can cause memory leak

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #363

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:35:41 -0000

Fixed in commit aaf355e02b13c717e077f4b4efad2f86e5880276

Sean Young modified ticket #353

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:17:04 -0000

Bug in SendCommand in client.py

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #353

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:17:04 -0000

Fix in commit ae278ac63b6ec4c322752ca6631645465a6c41e9

Sean Young modified ticket #291

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:16:28 -0000

default driver "asleep"

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #291

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:16:28 -0000

I can't reproduce it, no reports since 2019 so close this issue. Please comment/reopen if there are still issues.

Sean Young committed [ae278a] on Git

Sean Young — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:15:29 -0000

python: Fix type hint

Sean Young modified a comment on ticket #340

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:22:13 -0000

lirc is not really suitable for controlling an AC. You could try cir or IrpTransmogrifier.

Sean Young modified ticket #340

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:21:38 -0000

irsed to use raw codes to support AC units

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #340

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:21:38 -0000

lirc is not really suitable for controlling an AC. You could try cir or IrpTransmogrifier.

Sean Young modified ticket #376

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:19:03 -0000

Driver `default' not found or not loadable

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #376

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:19:03 -0000

No update in two years, closing

Sean Young modified ticket #350

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:14:00 -0000

lrcrcd spins on poll with 0 duration timeout

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #350

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:14:00 -0000

This problem does not exist in the current tree. I guess this ticket just refers to out of date code.

Sean Young modified ticket #374

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:11:23 -0000

support passing MODINFO to configure

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #374

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:11:23 -0000

Merged

Sean Young modified ticket #385

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:10:44 -0000

ubuntu builds ignore `--with-systemdsystemunitdir`

Sean Young posted a comment on ticket #385

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:10:44 -0000

Similar fix merged

Sean Young committed [f53090] on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:02:50 -0000

doxyfile: Don't include full pathname

Sean Young committed [c263a2] on Git

Sean Young — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:02:50 -0000

Patch configure.ac to support passing MODINFO.