[mythtv-users] still having remote troubles with Fedora 14/Harmony

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:01 PM, John Welch wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>> I just upgraded my FE/BE system from F13 to F14 (for various reasons).
>> Everything is working pretty well now except the Harmony remote (which
>> worked fine under F13). I have read several previous threads about
>> similar problems and I have tried the fixes there, but I am obviously
>> missing something because I am still having the same problem previously
>> described: remote key presses are being received and acted on multiple
>> times.
>> 
>> I have a Streamzap receiver and a Harmony 700 remote. Both remotes have
>> the "bouncing" problem, but it is worse on the Harmony. In both cases,
>> if I am really quick with the button press, it will work properly. Just
>> a hair too long and I get a bounce. The difference is that the Streamzap
>> is a little more tolerant than the Harmony. I have to have REALLY short
>> button presses on the Harmony to avoid multiple responses.
>> 
>> What I have done:
>> 
>> 1) echo lirc  > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>> 
>> (in rc.local)
>> 
>> 2) used the troubleshoot section of the Harmony programming to set the
>> "device responds too much to some commands" value to the lowest setting
>> (zero)
>> 
>> 3) On the Harmony, held down the Help button and set the Inter-device
>> delay down to zero.
>> 
>> 4) Added "repeat = 2"  to every key in my lircrc file.
>> 
>> Changing the Harmony-related settings helped a little, but since the
>> Streamzap is also much more sensitive than it was under F13, there has
>> to be something else going on than just Harmony settings. Even with the
>> Streamzap, the WAF is going down because it is a pain to use even the
>> Streamzap now.
>> 
>> Oh yeah: keyboard control works fine and I am running the latest F14
>> kernel 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64
>> 
>> 
>> Anything else I can try? The Harmony is pretty much useless for using
>> with Myth right now because it is SO picky about the length of the
>> button press.
>> 
> 
> Don't really have any answers or suggestions for you, but I can tell
> you that I am one of people that previously posted on this issue and I
> am still basically in the same boat as you are.  As far as I know
> there is no fix for the current kernel.  So, I don't think you are
> necessarily missing anything.  If you can possibly drop back two
> kernel levels (2.6.35.9-64) I think you will find things will work
> better as long as you have the 'echo' command in your rc.local.  My
> understanding, which may or may not be correct, is that there is
> another kernel in testing (Rawhide) that addresses this issue.  I'm
> hoping this is the case and that the kernel gets released soon.

There's a new kernel in the build system that has the latest upstream bits
in it (2.6.35.10-78.fc14), but I'd completely forgot about this issue, and
it just dawned on me what the problem might actually be. The fix is easy,
if its what I think it is, but I'll have to build a one-off test kernel and
have someone try it out for me.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com