(2021-11-14, 23:31)wcanyon Wrote: Worth noting that I had to install Kodi from the flatpak repo to get it to work in Mint. The standard edition won't launch.
I suspect that might be the source of your problem, if you did not upgrade or reinstall lirc, but note that even a normal apt update/upgrade would have upgraded it if you did not hold the package. You want to make sure you're still running lirc 0.9x, not a 1.x version (if I recall correctly). If you don't ascertain which version you have, any attempt to make it work could be an exercise in futility. Be sure to read the article I linked above, and if you do by some miracle still have the older version, make sure you mark it so it can't upgrade.
My suspicion is that you might be one of those people who never does a system upgrade as long as everything is working (which is a very, very bad practice for security reasons, but it's your system and your network). But then when you tried to do the Kodi upgrade, something told you to do the apt update/upgrade dance, which would normally be excellent advice but in this case had the unintended consequence of upgrading lirc to the terribly bad version. If you read the article I mentioned, it tells you how to mark lirc so it won't be upgraded in that situation.
I have always followed the instructions at
https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux (section 1). Normally I don't upgrade Kodi unless I am going to wipe the system (after making a backup of course) and reinstall both the operating system and Kodi from scratch, so I use the commands in sections 1.1. If you did not do a clean install, it is possible there are traces of the old Kodi as well as the new on the system. In any case I think maybe flatpaks run in some kind of "sandbox" and may not receive lirc input in the same way that the normal version would. We've all been there, where something that has always worked in the past no longer does, so rather than spend time figuring out why the previously used method no longer works we move on and try something different, and in my experience about half the time that solves the problem, but the other half the time it either still doesn't work or creates brand new issues. I have personally avoided flatpaks and snaps whenever possible, so I am not the person to ask for help with them. So, I would make certain which lirc version you have installed, and if it is still the older one then I would suspect the flatpack version of Kodi MIGHT be the problem. If it's the newer lirc version, then reverting back to the older one may solve your problem, but only if the flatpak version of Kodi is receiving the commands.
