[mythtv-users] Problem with LIRC after upgrade to Fedora 24

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Greg,

Sunday, July 17, 2016, 10:26:09 PM, you wrote:



> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:


>  If I run ir-keytable, it does not see the keypresses. I can see
> the light flashing on the USB receiver, but ir-keytable doesn't report anything:
>  
>  
>  This means that your kernel doesn't support your remote.  So,
> using lircd + the default driver is probably your best bet (which
> means driver=default, device=/dev/lirc0 in lirc_options.conf).



> Well, actually it does. If I go back and re-enable all the
> protocols in /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols, now ir-keytable sees the
> keypresses. However, if after this I try to use the devinput driver
> in lirc_options.conf, then irw and mythfrontend see nothing. 
>  

Completely logical as ir_keytable is for devinput and irw for old
style. They will not work both! If also mythfrontend doesn't see what
ir_keytable sees, then somewhere down the line there is a
configuration error. Very possible something old-style among new-style
:-(

>  
>  You might want  to look into lirc's repeat suppression. See e. g. [1]. the 'repeat' parameter.



> I tried setting "repeat = 1" for every key in my lircrc file, but I still get the bounces in Myth.
>  
> However, it's strange that this happens only after this update.




> Yes. It's possible that either a newer version of one of the
> software components involved is responsible, or one of the updates
> overwrote a config file somewhere. RPM updates are usually
> scrupulous about not overwriting config files that I've modified, or
> at least creating a .rpmsave file, but it's conceivable that someone
> could have made a packaging mistake to silently overwrite something.


> --Greg







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