[mythtv-users] first remote button press is ignored

jrh jharbestonus at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 06:18:17 UTC 2018



> On Jan 19, 2018, at 10:36 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris.list at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm running MythTV 0.29 on a Debian sid machine. Whenever I begin playback of a
> recording or video, the first time I press a button on my remote control, it is
> ignored. Subsequent button presses are recognized as expected. If I exit
> playback and start again, the first button press is again ignored, and
> subsequent button presses are recognized. This has been 100% reproducible. All
> button presses are recognized while I navigate the mythfrontend menus.
> 

There is another possibility… It could  be that the first press of a button merely wakes up the remote.
and after that all is well.

> I'm using LIRC 0.10.0 with a MCEUSB remote. I've tried using the devinput driver
> for LIRC as well as its native driver, but both produced the same behavior.
> 
> Could mythfrontend be putting the USB device to sleep when it starts playback?
> And then my first button press wakes the device? I looked through the log
> generated with `--loglevel debug --verbose general` but didn't see anything
> promising.
> 
> Does anyone know what might be causing this or have suggestions for further
> troubleshooting?
> 
> Thanks.
> Joey
> 
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