[mythtv-users] Skip-ahead acting weird after FC10 upgrade
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Nov 3 04:13:18 UTC 2009
On Oct 25, 2009, at 9:50 PM, Larry K wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>
> wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 09:42 AM, Larry K wrote:
> ...
>
> Yes, lirc is working most of the time. It's just the occasional error
> that causes myth to weird out on me. If I press skip-ahead say 10
> times
> repeatedly, I'll get maybe one bad code transmitted and then myth gets
> into the wrong menu and then the wife yells at me for it.
>
> I am using the Hauppauge PVR-250 IR receiver. I have a Xantech
> connecting block that I use to get the IR signal into my equipment
> cabinet. The emitter from the Xantech is positioned in close
> proximity
> to the Hauppauge IR receiver.
>
> All of this has worked fine for several years. The issues started
> after
> the fc10 upgrade.
>
> I got nothin' on this front, lirc_i2c has changed some since what's
> in the F10 kernel, but only in the i2c client registration area,
> nothing significant I can think of in the signal processing area.
> Might try running with lirc_i2c loaded in debug mode, see what gets
> spit out into dmesg when the wackiness ensues.
>
> --
>
> Well, I ran in debug mode and I can see different hex codes
> reflected in the log when the spurious codes are received by irw ,
> but the log gives no indication as to why....
Damn. I still don't really have a clue. Batteries in the remote aren't
starting to go or anything are they? A weak signal can occasionally
cause an incorrect signal interpretation on the receiver side...
> Oh. I forgot to say that I have dual Hauppauge PVR-250s in this
> machine. I guess this shouldn't matter to lirc? It hasn't in the
> past.
Nope, shouldn't matter.
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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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