[mythtv-users] Desperate: Help with ir-keytable and IguanaIR

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Dave Ulrick <d-ulrick at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I have an IguanaIR that is sort of working with ir-keytable. I had to select
> the RC5 protocol. It was unresponsive with all of the other protocols.
>
> I say it's "sort of" working because with my remotes it has a really
> annoying issue with repeated IR events. That is, if I very briefly press a
> remote button, every once in a while repeated events will pass through to
> mythfrontend. If I set up LIRC to work with devinput, the repeats are no
> longer an issue, but I'd like to not use LIRC because it tends to not
> restart after I wake the PC (a ZOTAC ZBOX) from suspend, and when LIRC
> doesn't come back to life I have to stop mythfrontend, restart LIRC, and
> start mythbackend back up. Upshot: I've been using a wireless USB keyboard
> instead of an IR remote to control mythfrontend.
>
> Dave

You know it's interesting that you bring this up about using that in
LIRC. As I mentioned above I have an MCE USB receiver that I wasn't
using because I found it to be way to unreliable. It would even
periodically stop getting anything at all for 30 seconds or more. That
was when I was still using LIRC (with the default driver) and wasn't
able to get my old serial port receiver working (after the kernel move
of lirc_serial to serial_ir).

Interestingly, because this new IquanaIR doesn't appear to be working,
I just started using the MCE with ir-keytable, and it's actually
working almost flawlessly. There's one button on my remote that
doesn't get recognized at all for some reason, so I substituted
another. Occasionally it misses and you have to hit a button twice,
but all it all it's quite usable with ir-keytable.

Tom