[mythtv-users] still having remote troubles with Fedora 14/Harmony

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
...
>> OK, I finally got time to try this. Downloaded and installed the x86_64
>> version and booted it. I would say that things are improved, but not
>> completely fixed. While it is now a bit easier to avoid double keys, it
>> still happens if I am the least bit careless about how long I hold the
>> key down. The Streamzap is still better than the Harmony. I think the
>> Streamzap is almost wife-usable, but the Harmony is still way too
>> sensitive.
>>
>> Short answer: improved, but still more of a problem than it used to be
>> before I upgraded from F13 to F14.
>
> So I think the "way too sensitive" may be "we actually report more
> accurately what signals we've seen", which needs to then be suppressed
> and/or filtered in userspace, either with the suppress_repeat param
> in lircd.conf or using repeat=X in .lircrc. At least, as far as I can
> tell, the same issues that were in the mceusb driver are either already
> fixed in streamzap, or were never issues, due to differences in the
> device driver buffer parsing routines. But I still need to go and do
> some actual hardware prodding myself.

Crap. Just tried my own streamzap hardware. Things are definitely off a
touch. Rather than reporting a keypress and repeat(s), its reporting as a
new keypress every time, which explains your description of "way too
sensitive". I'll try to get it sorted out as soon as I can.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com