I demand that Simon Baxter may or may not have written...
Can I use /dev/input/event2 with LIRC?
Yes. In /etc/lirc/hardware.conf: DRIVER="dev/input" DEVICE="dev/input/event2" MODULES=""
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I guess I'm asking, can LIRC and the remote plugin work simultaneously?
Potentially, yes, but there appears to be some O_EXCL usage going on. (And you'd need to be careful of them both doing something with any given keypress.)
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