Core: Lirc doesn't work on HA with Raspberry.

[kingtao1024]

Home Assistant release with the issue:
0.106.2

Last working Home Assistant release (if known):

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):
Homeassistant under raspberry PI with Raspbian 9.4(stretch)

Component/platform:
LIRC:

Description of problem:
I want to use raspberry PI's IR sensor to send and receive commands.
I had all this working in a Raspberry PI and it was working fine.
when I write "Lirc:" in the configration.yaml HA report:

Unable to install package python-lirc==1.2.3: ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /srv/homeassistant/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-cjb5i9c5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-cjb5i9c5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-muj5ax_0 --python-tag cp38
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-cjb5i9c5/python-lirc/
  Complete output (87 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'lirc' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.8
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.8/lirc
  gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/srv/homeassistant/include -I/usr/local/include/python3.8 -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.8/lirc/lirc.o
  lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘PyInit_lirc’:
  lirc/lirc.c:4249:3: warning: ‘tp_print’ is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
     __pyx_type_4lirc_LircConfig.tp_print = 0;
     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /srv/homeassistant/bin/python3.8 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-cjb5i9c5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-cjb5i9c5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-luytsk84/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /srv/homeassistant/include/site/python3.8/python-lirc Check the logs for full command output.

and if I try to install python-lirc==1.2.3 on my linux sys, it can be installed.(python3.5.3)
but I can't install it in my virtualenv where HA installed.(python3.8.2)
and I am trying to change the verson of python.
I have known that it doesn't support 3.7.0.
now I am trying 3.6.0

Please help me if I am doing the wrong thing.!

update：with python 3.6.0，python-lirc can be installed！
but 3.7.0 still not support，I don't know why
and 3.6.9 also ok.

[kingtao1024]

Is there anyone who can help me?

[jiangytcn]

I 'm also using venv to manage the hass, fixed the IR issue with following steps

1. python -m pip install --upgrade cpython
2. git clone https://github.com/tompreston/python-lirc.git
3. cd python-lirc/
4. make py3 && python setup.py install

[CarlosGS]

This issue is even worse for Hassos users, since LIRC does not come preinstalled and there is no way to set it up :(

In fact the official documentation asks to run sudo apt-get install lirc liblircclient-dev which turns out is impossible in Hassos :-/

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