[mythtv-users] Double Lirc Keystroke Navigating in MythTV

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Thursday 03 June 2004 15:58, Dave and Lisa Hofstra wrote:
> I have always had double keystrokes on my navigation keys on my remote
> control in CERTAIN parts of MythTV.  This has not been so much of an
> issue before (just VERY annoying), but now that Myth is setup to use
> right arrows and left arrows to select and/or exit certain menus, it has
> become a bigger problem for me.  Let me explain:
>
> My Lirc is installed from scratch, along with MythTV 0.15.1 from
> scratch.  My remote keypresses using irxevent work perfectly in xine or
> a simple text editor.  When I say perfectly, I mean that every 1
> keypress on my remote results in 1 character in the text editor (not 2).
>
> When I use MythTV, the main menu navigation works perfectly 1 keypress
> on the remote = 1 action up or down on the main menu.
>
> However, when I enter certain menu's in MythTV like the 'Select Music
> menu', using the same up and down arrows that presented only 1 action on
> the main myth window, now produce 2 menu movements.  It is always 2
> lines.  So, for example when navigating the 'Select music',  'play
> music' etc main menu, pressing up once produces one menu item move up.
> BUT when I get into the actual music selection with thousands of
> listings, 1 press of up produces exactly 2 movements of the menu up.
>
> This weird result of 2 keystrokes is identical in the 'Watch Recordings'
> menu.  The main TV menu gives 1 menumove per 1 keypress, whereas the
> actual listings in  all recordings gives exactly 2 keystrokes per remote
> button press.
>
> I used to just hold the button 'down' for a while to end up on some odd
> numbered line and then i could just press up X amounts of times to go
> back up to my selection 2 lines at a time, but now that myth uses left
> and right arrows, this doubling of keystrokes is happening when I want
> to move to a new menu.   For example, pressing right on the TV menu
> button on the main screen presents me with live TV... 2 keystrokes of
> 'right' arrow have put me through the tv menu right to the live tv
> images.  Or, when hitting 'right' arrow in my all music lefthand menu
> brings me to the song of the first artist in the list rather than to the
> first artist in the list where I want to be.
>
> My program guide ALWAYS moves perfectly as 1 keypress = 1 menu movement.
>
> I have always used lirc with irxevent, and I thought maybe I should give
> up irxevent and use myth's builtin lirc compatability.  So I recompiled
> Myth with lirc support, and without running irxevent, I get no
> keystrokes at all.  I do know that lirc support builtin is working
> because now if I halt the lirc daemon, mythfrontend complains about
> 'could not connect to socket' on startup.  If lircd is running, and
> irxevent is not, lirc starts up with no messages from the frontend
> whatsoever lirc, but nothing happens.

Did you put your config file in ~/.mythtv/lircrc, and do you have prog = 
mythtv for each button?

> I am using a homebrew lirc reciever and a good quality One for all
> remote using some Sony IR code that looked good to me in lirc, and had
> very distinct mode2 results on each keypress.
>
> NOTE:  My system is Mandrake 9.2, and my liblirc-client..so.0.0.0 was
> automatically put in usr/lib by mandrake.  I even tried replacing  this
> file with the one lirc created for me when I installed it in
> /usr/local/lib/liblirc-client.so.0.0.0

I believe the "repeat = x" option in .lircrc should handle all your problems. 
Here's an example config file:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/lircrc-haupgrey.txt

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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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