[mythtv-users] Keyboard stops working in frontend

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/24/2006 02:20 AM, Andy Foster wrote:
> On 5/24/06, fpeeters <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
>   
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> On 05/21/2006 03:12 AM, Francesco Peeters wrote:
>>>> I have seen something comparable in live tv, where only the first
>>>> keypress is recognised (most notably in the guide, BTW) and only ESC
>>>> will do anything after that. After ESC again a single keypress is
>>>> recognised.
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/82722#82722 (whole
>>> thread)
>>>       
>
> This seems related to an issue that I've been having with the frontend
> no longer responding to commands in livetv after a lot of I/O
> processing (typically a channel change) has taken place
> (http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/204908).
>
> This does not occur after every channel change, but it usually will
> after four or five at least (I don't watch much livetv hence why this
> was unnoticed for so long). It also has never happened while watching
> recordings.
>
> I'm also fairly certain this is not a WM focus issue, as the frontend
> also does not respond to commands via the telnet interface.

That's a known issue in SVN trunk that's being worked on and wouldn't 
affect usage of the EPG.  Francesco's issue is unrelated.  (Not to say 
that the issue you mention isn't the problem experienced by some who 
have posted in this thread.)

Mike