[mythtv-users] Success, except for the remote.

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Fri Mar 19 01:25:54 EST 2004


On Mar 18, 2004, at 20:46, Chris Thompson wrote:

> Gah! After my overly morose failure email of a few days ago, I'm happy 
> to
> say I have this whole thing ALMOST working. (It's amazing what $280 in 
> new
> hardware can do for your frontend system.)
>
> I got the MCE remote with the USB receiver that Dan Conti was kind 
> enough
> to hack into lirc. It works, except for a serious problem with 
> duplicate
> keys.
>
> With mythtv native lirc I have a ~/.mythtv/lircrc with entries like...
>
> begin
>     prog = mythtv
>     button = Two
>     repeat = 0
>     config = 2
> end
>
> Every entry has that repeat = 0 in it, which I got by searching the
> archives. As I read it, that's supposed to make lirc ignore repeats, 
> but
> it's not.
>
> So I figured maybe myth's native lirc support didnt like repeat. Moving
> that lircrc out of the way, I create a ~/.lircrc for irxevent with
> entries like...
>
> begin
>     prog = irxevent
>     button = Two
>     repeat = 0
>     config = Key 2 CurrentWindow
> end
>
> And run irxevent.
>
> In both cases the repeats are amazingly bad. It's almost impossible to 
> do
> anything useful. I mean, it reads just fine, and if I change the 
> config =
> lines in each entry, I get the expected keys, just no love from repeat.
>
> Any suggestions?

repeat=0 never seemed to work for me either with my MCE receiver. I 
just set repeat=4, and everything works fine. (Different remote though, 
so ymmv).

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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