2020-05-18, 15:31
(2020-05-18, 08:43)black_eagle Wrote:My only concern is that I might have a catastrophic hardware failure, or that a Linux kernel upgrade might go bad and force a re-installation of the OS. I've experienced both at various times. As for running Ubuntu after it becomes EOL, my only concern about that is not getting security updates, and possibly leaving a security hole on the system. That's actually another reason I have given some thought to leaving Ubuntu; I understand some Linux distributions support what are called "rolling releases" which if I understand correctly (and I probably don't) means you never have to do a full reinstall of the OS when upgrading to the next major version. But those are definitely "not Ubuntu" and therefore I'm not even sure Kodi would run on any of those, also I suspect that if I find Ubuntu difficult at times (and I do) I'd be totally lost in one of those. But your point is well taken; this is a can that I can safely kick down the road for now, and maybe by the time a couple of years rolls around either the LIRC developers will have come to their senses and restored the install menu, or someone will have forked the 0.9.0 version or come up with something even better that works across multiple applications. Or maybe some kind soul will come up with a script that does essentially what the install menu did (lets you pick your remote from a list, and then modifies the configuration files accordingly). We can always hope, anyway.(2020-05-18, 00:43)oldtvwatcher Wrote: I have to ask, have you had any issues with either non-responsive buttons, or with buttons registering as double or triple presses since using this?
No, I don't have any issues like that at all. The 'onkyo' references are to the AVR remote that I use to control Kodi. The MCE stuff could actually come out as it isn't needed.
(2020-05-18, 00:43)oldtvwatcher Wrote: if it is time to try something else when I am ready to upgrade from 18.04, which is part of the reason I posted in the first place.
Well, you don't need to rush to upgrade. 18.04 has support for almost another 3 years so it isn't like it's EOL or anything. I'm still running 16.04 server on one of my machines simply because I don't need to upgrade it. It does the job I want it to and it's not going to suddenly stop doing that just because 16.04 becomes EOL next year. It'll probably still be running it in another 5 years time if the hardware is still OK.
Thanks for your help; I am definitely going to save a link to this thread in case I do find I need to upgrade at some point.