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Lirc Setup On Arch Linux

How to make lirc work (ie Fix it) with MCE reciever on Arch Linux

I was scratching my head on this one for a long time. Everything seemed to be set up but irw and cat'ing devices did nothing.

Eventually, from this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121651

I realised that the default is not LIRC. Setting the ir-keytable fixed it for me.

I put this into the systemctl script.

Firstly, copy the lircd.service to /etc/systemd (this overides the default)

cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/lircd.service /etc/systemd/system/lircd.service

Then add the line:

ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ir-keytable -p LIRC

above the ExecStart? line

Full file now: 

[Unit]
Description=LIRC Infrared Signal Decoder
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ir-keytable -p LIRC
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target