[mythtv-users] LiveTV Hangs

[Mark Kendall]

On 9 February 2011 02:49, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 12:03 PM, John Pham wrote:
>>
>> I did delete my capture cards and input sources on backend, twice!  Even
>> went as far as re-installing a fresh new frontend on different hard drive.
>>  Hanging issue is still persistent.
>>
>> I'm thinking my issue has something to do with LIRC. If I start Live TV
>> with wireless keyboard, it works fine. It I do same to my Harmony remote, it
>> hangs.  But IRW in terminal shows all key presses registering properly.
>>  Once frontend starts, something wacky is going on with my remote.
>>
>> I have redo my lircd.conf and lircrc with no change to hanging at Live TV.
>
> There's a rumor that sending keystrokes/remote button presses while Live TV
> is initializing will cause a failure.  So, it sounds like your remote is
> sending extraneous signals.  Try adding a delay=10 (or start with 100 and
> then work down) to the definition for the button you use to start Live TV,
> and be careful not to hit any other buttons while it's setting up.

This should now be fixed in trunk and I'll backport to fixes later
today. I've not confirmed the keypress issue but the problem of
starting live tv in the program guide is definitely resolved.

Regards

Mark