Lack of support for Multiple receivers

[mavik]

Binary package hint: lirc

The lirc configuration file /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, /etc/init.d/lirc and the Mythbuntu Control Center only supports the use of a single receiver and a single transmitter. There are valid cases for using multiple receivers, for example, the Imon Knob, which only provides volume up, volume down and mute depending on the revision of the hardware, plus another IR remote. If the configuration files were able to support multiple receivers then Mythbuntu Control Center should be able to support it too.

Currently manually editing the lirc configurations files is required to get multiple lirc receivers functional.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

This is fixed in the new 0.9.4b update (zesty - experimental). This is a major update which supports a /etc/lircd.conf.d/ directory. As shipped, all files in this directory will be used.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

At second thogt this is a mythbuntu issue, re-assigning.

Please note that that from 0.9.4 lirc no longer supports hardware.conf. In short, each lircd instance is configured as a systemd service. There is also a ren lirc_options.conf file which defines default values for command line options. See upstream documentation at http://lirc.org.

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

This do belong to mythbuntu since it's about the automatic generation of config files. Still unsure which of the mythbuntu packages, sorry.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This would have belonged to mythbuntu-lirc-generator, but Mythbuntu is no longer going to be supported. So this won't be fixed.
See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythbuntu-common/+bug/1639445