How to set up on Fedora Kinoite?

[gauche]

Hi,

I'm a new Flirc user, ultimately wanting to control my media PC with it (which is running LibreElec). As I understand it, I need to set it up first, though I have no idea what that entails just yet. I've been trying to get the software working on my desktop machine, which is running Fedora Kinoite 43.

I first tried the AppImage, which runs but does not detect the plugged in Flirc. It just says "Please connect flirc" even though it's connected (and the o/s notifies me that it's connected).

I then tried switching to the CLI, which I'll probably prefer longer-term anyway. However, when I installed it into an Ubuntu-based toolbox (container) and ran `flirc_util wait`, it would just display "Waiting..." even after plugging/unplugging the USB.

Any suggestions?

[jason]

47 minutes ago, gauche said:

Hi,

I'm a new Flirc user, ultimately wanting to control my media PC with it (which is running LibreElec). As I understand it, I need to set it up first, though I have no idea what that entails just yet. I've been trying to get the software working on my desktop machine, which is running Fedora Kinoite 43.

I first tried the AppImage, which runs but does not detect the plugged in Flirc. It just says "Please connect flirc" even though it's connected (and the o/s notifies me that it's connected).

I then tried switching to the CLI, which I'll probably prefer longer-term anyway. However, when I installed it into an Ubuntu-based toolbox (container) and ran `flirc_util wait`, it would just display "Waiting..." even after plugging/unplugging the USB.

Any suggestions?

Try Sudo, or copy the udev rules over to /udev/rules.d/ from the static image. 

[gauche]

@jason thanks for the response.

I tried sudo with the AppImage and that works. However, running the CLI via sudo exhibited the same behavior, presumably because the container doesn't have access to the USB (Toolbox is intended to map a bunch of things onto the container for you to make it feel as though you're on the host, but perhaps it doesn't do so for USB).

Sorry if I'm being dumb, but what do you mean by static image? The AppImage? If I extract all files from it, I don't see any udev rules in it.