[mythtv-users] Phantom IR key presses?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Ben Lancaster writes:

> Hey,
> 
> I have a working LIRC 0.8.0 CVS install using the Linux Input Layer  
> as the device, but there's something weird happening with Myth. I'm  
> getting quite regular phantom keypresses. For example, in the guide,  
> if I press down a few times, then up once, it'll repeat the previous  
> down command. irw reports the correct keys being pressed, so the  
> problem lies somewhere between the command hitting mythtv from LIRC,  
> and it performing it.
> 
> Is this specific to my system, or a known bug for linux-input-layer  
> setups? Any quick fixes out there?
> 
> I'm on Myth 0.19 from atrpms, lirc 0.8.1-CVS, FC5 and Kernel  
> 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5smp.

Check your key code mapping in lircrc.  I made a typo once, and the same 
keycode was listed two times in lircrc, for different keystrokes.  Each time 
I pressed that key on the remote control, lirc dutifully emitted the first 
keystroke, then the second one.


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