[mythtv-users] first remote button press is ignored

[Joey Morris]

jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote on Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 01:18:17AM -0500:
> 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.

Right, but why would the remote be asleep? Note that I used it just 5 seconds
before to navigate the menu and press OK to start playback. That's why I
wondered later in my message whether mythfrontend was doing something to put the
remote to sleep.