[mythtv-users] Remote sends command twice

[Michael T. Dean]

gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:

> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> As for the other buttons, I'm not sure what's happening.  I'm 
>> starting to think it may have something to do with the remote's only 
>> sending the signal when the button is pressed firmly--meaning that if 
>> I press the button enough for it to send and my finger wiggles enough 
>> to cause an on-off-on, LIRC may detect that the timing is not right 
>> for a remote's sending a repeat and assumes I just hit the button 
>> twice...  Of course, this is all conjecture with no evidence to 
>> support it, so...
>
> that's what i thought, but i have done my best to be extremely careful 
> about how i press and it doesn't seem to make a difference ... 
> strangely, it seems that it most likely does it when the ending screen 
> is the shutdown screen ... and i can reproduce that quite often ...
>
> and for me, it's only the power button that does it :S

Now that you made me think about it, I'm pretty sure I only have the 
problem with the mouse cursor (as described) and with the Stop and Power 
buttons.  I have Stop mapped as Esc and Power as Alt-Esc (using 
irxevent), which is the key combo I use for exiting Myth.  Mapping Power 
to Alt-Esc prevents me from accidentally going to the "Exit Myth" dialog 
since Esc gets ignored on the top menu.  Although I could use Power as 
an Esc (since the Alt gets ignored by Myth everywhere other than at the 
top menu), using Stop for Esc prevents problems.  As a matter of fact, 
I'm thinking of mapping Power to something else since I never need it to 
shut down mythfrontend (I could always do that with the keyboard when I 
need to).  Only question is what makes sense for a power button...

>> Neither do I, but  then again, I just recently upgraded to 0.7.0 
>> final and haven't had time to play with the new stuff, yet.  So, 
>> maybe we both should have it...  I plan to play around with repeat, 
>> delay, and min_repeat.  I'll let you know if I improve things...
>
> i did with some things (since my 4yo son was having a hell of a time 
> navigating the menus in Monsters, Inc. with the repeat rate too fast)

Yeah, I have repeat=0 (explicitly set) on everything except volume.  Are 
you using delay for volume?  Have you played with min_repeat at all?  If 
so, I'd be interested in seeing your config (you can send it to me 
offline if you like).

>> (BTW, did your 0.7.0pre lircd.conf stop working with 0.7.0 final?  I 
>> had to re-program my remote with irrecord because all the codes 
>> changed... ???)
>
> not positive on that, but i *think* it did ... something about the 
> prefix, not the entire number, iirc,

Exactly--just the prefix.  Couldn't figure out whether I messed things 
up or if LIRC was really reading things differently.  I think it's from 
changes to the code that allows explicitly setting the channel, but I 
can't figure out how the changes could have made the difference it did.  
Anyway, glad to hear that it really did change.  Either way, my 
lircd.conf works better than the one I downloaded, anyway...

> but i did that around the time of changing from kernel-2.4.x to 
> kernel-2.6.x ... will soon (hopefully) be reinstalling that machine 
> with gentoo instead, so i'll get to try a lot of this stuff from 
> scratch (well, obviously i'll back up settings, but i may see if 
> starting clean w/ lirc stuff helps my case any)

Good luck.  I've got a couple of higher-priority machines that I need to 
update before my Myth box, but I'll be in your shoes before long.

Mike