[mythtv-users] Lirc "pauses" ?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Apr 27 17:35:38 UTC 2007


On 04/27/2007 01:28 PM, David Frascone wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 04/27/2007 12:57 PM, David Frascone wrote:
>>     
>>> For some reason, lirc takes 30s to 1 minute pauses now and then.  So, 
>>> the remote will work fine -- then it wont -- for a long period.  Then, 
>>> it will suddenly work again.
>>>
>>> I've straced it a bit, and it seems to still receive the IR signal -- 
>>> but it doesn't write anything to the application.  (In other words, the 
>>> device sends out data, lircd receives it, but lircd does *not* send the 
>>> data to mythfrontend).
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I'm using lircd_serial.
>>>
>>>
>>> If not, I'll head over to the lircd lists.
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3047 , and specifically 
>> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/3047#comment:3 , perhaps.  I'm pretty 
>> sure the same will apply for lircd.
> They do look similar, but my frontend does *not* hang.  And, from doing 
> an strace, lircd doesn't seem to hang either -- unless you think a 
> particular thread (the lirc receiver thread) is hanging. . .
>
> When it happnes, irw does *not* work either.  But -- the frontend is 
> still playing TV recordings, etc, and the keyboard works fine.

The only reason mythfrontend was "hanging" there was because it is 
written to wait for the channel change script to complete.  The 
important part is to ensure the lircd process has access to the real 
time clock (including permissions).

Mike


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