[mythtv-users] Why is remote sluggish compared to keyboard

[Andre]

On 15 Oct 2010, at 10:20, Terjesen Jens Peder wrote:

> Andre wrote:
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> On 15 Oct 2010, at 09:33, Terjesen Jens Peder wrote:
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>> Michelle Dupuis wrote:
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>> I've been using mythtv for years, first with keyboard then adding remotes.
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>> When using the keyboard the response from myth is snappy (immediate), responding to UP/DOWN/Select etc.
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>> When using a remote, I have to pause 1/2 second between remote clicks or myth will ignore them (or not see them).
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>> Is this normal?  How would I fix this?
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>> Thanks!
>> M
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>> A while back I had the same problem with the remote connected to my HVR-4000.
>> I tried to adjust repeat limits and other parameters in lirc but nothing worked.
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>> By chance I saw that lirc registered key-releases instead of key-presses.
>> I then found correct configfiles and it started working as it should.
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> And the correct ones are? I thought I had the correct hvr4000 files but the remote is seriously laggy, any improvement would be very welcome.
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> Although I notice the lag is worse in Arclight than any other theme so I'm sure that's not the whole story...
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> Andre
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> For older kernels (OpenSUSE 11.0) I used the one from linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-4000 but when I upgraded to OpenSUSE 11.2 I had to make it myself using irrecord.
> Newer kernels treats this remote as an input-layer device wheras older ones does not IIRC.

Well I tried an Ubuntu 10.10 install for my frontend and the remote was much much quicker, of course many things (everything) has changed with a fresh install but I never saw any changes to this upgrading before. I saw there has been significant re-design of the kernel ir system but not sure how much of this affects Ubuntu yet.

I had some other issues with the nvidia driver so went back to my 10.04 netboot install.



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> If you fire up irw it should be quite easy to see if lirc registers key-presses or key-releases.
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> Jens
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