[mythtv-users] Ubuntu 10.10 upgrade and remote control problems

[Jarod Wilson]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Bob Wiegand wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:36 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 11:20 AM, <bob_ml at stuffofmine.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I upgraded my MythTV boxes to Ubuntu 10.10 and it caused problems with my
>>> Streamzap remotes. It's possible that other remotes may have similar
>>> issues.
>>> 
>>> The problem is that pressing the direction buttons are doubled - pressing
>>> Down once causes moves two entries down in the menu. Other people have also
>>> reported problems with this in the Ubuntu forums.
>>> 
>>> I don't totally understand everything that happening yet, but it looks
>>> like there are some new drivers to handle IR remotes in the new kernel and
>>> both the old lirc code and the new driver are both reporting the same
>>> button press.
>>> 
>>> A work around for now is to comment out the direction buttons in the lirc
>>> mapping file, but a better fix is needed.
>> 
>> 
>> Look for "for protocol in rc5 nec rc6 jvc sony" in /etc/init.d/lirc (aka http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-dev/lirc/ubuntu/annotate/head:/debian/lirc.init.d) and add 'rc5-sz' to that proto list, and the double-presses will go away. You're decoding IR both in-kernel and in userspace w/lircd.
>> 
>> Please file a bug here:
>> 
>> http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lirc
>> 
>> Assign it to Mario Limonciello, and he'll take care of updating the initscript accordingly.
>> 
>> For reference, see also:
>> 
>> http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=95
>> 
> 
> This fix didn't work. I added the value and rebooted the machine.
> I still get double presses.

Crap, sorry, I think that may be 'rc-5-sz' instead of 'rc5-sz'. You can do a 'cat /sys/devices/virtual/rc/rc0/protocols' to see for sure. Any decoder enclosed in '[]' (square braces) is enabled.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com