[mythtv-users] first remote button press is ignored

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 03:51:03 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 9:36 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris.list at zoho.com> wrote:

> I'm running MythTV 0.29 on a Debian sid machine. Whenever I begin playback
> of a
> recording or video, the first time I press a button on my remote control,
> it is
> ignored. Subsequent button presses are recognized as expected. If I exit
> playback and start again, the first button press is again ignored, and
> subsequent button presses are recognized. This has been 100% reproducible.
> All
> button presses are recognized while I navigate the mythfrontend menus.
>
> I'm using LIRC 0.10.0 with a MCEUSB remote. I've tried using the devinput
> driver
> for LIRC as well as its native driver, but both produced the same behavior.
>
> Could mythfrontend be putting the USB device to sleep when it starts
> playback?
> And then my first button press wakes the device? I looked through the log
> generated with `--loglevel debug --verbose general` but didn't see anything
> promising.
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this or have suggestions for further
> troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks.
> Joey
>

Run irw in a terminal.  If the 1st button press does not show any results,
but subsequent do, then your remote is to blame.  If the 1 does, then post
your lircrc file for mythtv.
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