Infrared tutorial for rpi3 with latest OSMC?

Hi Sam, I can select the remote from the GUI but nothing happens after a reboot.

I found this tutorial posting but it hasn’t helped me.

Here’s some output commands. Looks like LIRC isn’t even running on my system. I’m a bit rusty on debug collecting etc. If you could direct me to get you the diags that would help troubleshoot that would be great.

– no output on dmesg
osmc@osmc-study:~$ dmesg | grep lirc
osmc@osmc-study:~$

– no output lsmod
osmc@osmc-study:~$ sudo lsmod | grep lirc_rpi
osmc@osmc-study:~$


osmc@osmc-study:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/lirc*
ls: cannot access ‘/dev/lirc*’: No such file or directory
osmc@osmc-study:~$


osmc@osmc-study:~$ sudo systemctl status lircd_helper@lirc0

  • lircd_helper@lirc0.service - lircd remote support
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lircd_helper@.service; static)
    Active: inactive (dead)
    osmc@osmc-study:~$


osmc@osmc-study:~$ irw
Cannot connect to socket /usr/var/run/lirc/lircd: No such file or directory
osmc@osmc-study:~$