[mythtv-users] How to prevent learning remote from repeating signal?

[jason maxwell]

some motherboard bios' allow you to set keyboard repeat rate there.
try lowering it a tad.

On 2/4/07, Rod Smith <mythtv at rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:37, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> > Henry S. Greenside <hsg at phy.duke.edu> says:
> > > I purchased an inexpensive Sejin wireless IR keyboard
> > > (from pacificgeek.com)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > All of the remote commands work well except when the
> > > remote transmits the "Escape" key (mapped to the Exit
> > > button on the remote), the remote then evidently
> > > transmits several repetitions of Escape and so mythtv
> > > then jumps up to the highest menu level, asking if you
> > > want to exit or not from the frontend.
>
> FWIW, you can at least get rid of the prompt to exit by changing the key to
> exit from MythTV. I don't recall offhand where this option is set, but it's
> in one of the MythTV setup menus. IIRC, you can choose between Esc, Ctrl-Esc,
> Alt-Esc, and I believe Meta-Esc.
>
> > First, the above is the classic sign that when you trained the remote
> > with the keyboard you only got the first of the two keycodes
> > associated with the Escape key. See
> > <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/185983#185983>.
>
> If you can program the remote by attaching it to a computer and downloading a
> set of codes, you could go looking for a file that provides the codes for
> your keyboard. Such a file should have both of these codes (often
> called "make" and "break" codes, one for keydown and the other for keyup). I
> did this when programming a One For All remote to double as an IR keyboard.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
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