Re: problem with lirc over network under Ubuntu 18.04

On 28/12/18 19:46, André Weidemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> yesterday I upgrade my machine from 16.04 to 18.04.
> Currently lirc 0.10.0-2 is installed from the Ubuntu repositories.

> Since it complained about the invalid port "auto" I specified one:
> /usr/sbin/lircd -c 192.168.3.125:8765 --driver=udp --nodaemon
> ...which made things even worse.
> 
> The output varies on every invocation. Here are a few examples:
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s��N��U"
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s� �ơU"
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s�>KV"
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s֠�M�U"
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s��-V"
> lircd: bad port number "8765ce: %s֠�}�U"


Hmn... Reading the udp driver docs at [1] I think the device
specification might be wrong.

That said it certainly fails bad enough to file a bug.


Cheers!

--alec

[1] http://lirc.org/html/udp.html