March 12, 2014
Hello...
First thing to say would be that I am no Linux expert, I just get by. But finally got the Flirc GUI installed and working in a Debian Wheezy system. First attempt was done by modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list and running the apt-get. That only resulted in the error:
Err http://apt.flirc.tv binary/ Packages 404 Not Found
Which means to me that the website is the problem.
To have an idea when this going to be fixed would be extremely good since I would stop wasting time trying to figure out what is going on. Maybe on the download page - put a notice.
The second method used to install the GUI program was to download the program itself. After creating a file "flirc.rules" in the directory "/etc/udev/rules.d", I finally got the GUI program to connect with the Flirc module. The flirc.rules file only contained one line:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", MODE="0666", GROUP="UserName"
where UserName in GROUP="UserName" is the login of the user.
I still don't know if this is correct or not and if there are any repercussions but it works.
I also did an install in a Windows XP and a Windows Vista that are both running in VirtualBox from Oracle right in my Linux desktop. In both Windows everything seems to work.
My questions are:
- Why in Windows I have a top menu that has the items "File, Controllers, Help" and these are not apearing in my Linux GUI.
- Where are the firmware files? I just can't find them nowhere. Both the Windows and Linux versions of the software report:
Software version: 1.2.2
Firmware version: 1.2
I would really like to be able to use this Flirc device because I think it was and is and will be an excellent idea/design. It's just that after 3 days of trying to get this working properly in Linux, I seem to get into trouble at every turn I make and there is no indications on the website about any website problems.
Many thanks