[mythtv-users] Lirc "pauses" ?

[Mike Perkins]

Phil Bridges wrote:
> On 5/19/07, Jon Boehm <boehm100 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I had this issue.  I worked on it for two days.  My problem turned
>> out to be not myth or lirc, but fading batteries.  When the batteries
>> get week in my remote it starts behaving VERY irrationally.  The
>> first few commands fire out faster than is controllable then is
>> slowly stops working.  It finally dawned on my to try covering up the
>> emitter on the remote to give my frontend a "break" while still
>> holding down the buttons.  Turns out the frontend didn't need a
>> break.  My remote needed new batteries.  :-)
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Jon
>>
>> On May 19, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/19/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>>> On 05/19/2007 08:48 AM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>> On 5/19/07, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> For some reason, lirc takes 30s to 1 minute pauses now and
>>>>>>> then.  So,
>>>>>>> the remote will work fine -- then it wont -- for a long
>>>>>>> period.  Then,
>>>>>>> it will suddenly work again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I'm using lircd_serial.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm also getting this issue. It's really annoying because it
>>>>>> stops you
>>>>>> skipping through the ads etc. Did you fix it?
>>>>>>
>>>>> What lirc device are you using?  Mine is lirc_mceusb.  I wonder if
>>>>> this is a lirc issue or a Myth issue.
>>>> Not a Myth issue.  :)  The question is whether this is a LIRC
>>>> issue or a
>>>> LIRC configuration issue.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>> ...or LIRC and Myth fighting over resources...
>>>
>>> it's very odd that my FE/BE, which has the exact same remote, doesn't
>>> seem to have the issue.
> 
> Interesting.  I'll check mine.  It seems, though, like sometimes some
> commands are buffered at the end of the pause, and execute almost
> batch-like.
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I've seen this, but using the keyboard, as well as the remote. You can 
do about 6-8 commands which work perfectly then the next one takes at 
least a minute. Of course by that time you have banged a few more keys, 
so the whole lot get "batched up" and processed at once when the system 
eventually responds. Gets confusing when you are trying to scroll 
through the program listings.

I noticed (i) I don't get the problem when running a frontend on my main 
back end (a pain to get the thing out of it's cupboard for test 
purposes) and (ii) it happened reproducibly on a FE run separately fron 
the BE; and (iii) it magically went away when I installed a test BE on 
my FE to evaluate a different tuner card.

I never associated the problem with LIRC as I got it via the keyboard. 
 From my tests above I conjecture it's something to do with the network 
traffic (of lack of it) from the FE to the BE. I assume there's more 
when you have two backends talking.

Of course we may have two similar problems here with different causes.

Mike Perkins