[mythtv-users] first remote button press is ignored

[Alec Leamas]

On 24/01/18 16:19, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:26 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk
> <mailto:ijc at hellion.org.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 08:41 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
>     > Are you sure that ircat uses the same lircrc file as mythfrontend?
>     > IIRC, mythfrontend does not look in the default location.
> 
>     This is correct, mythtv uses ~/.mythtv/lircrc rather than ~/.lircrc.
> 
>     Ian.
> 
> 
> That is a good point - I have mine symlinked to the old .lirc/mythtv
> file I have always used.  Could quite possibly have duplicates between
> locations, but duplicates would usually mean multiple things happen per
> button press, not that nothing happens on some button presses.  Also if
> multiple entries (which I have had before), then multiple things *every*
> time you press that button.

Well, in that case... might it be that mythfrontend actually is the
culprit? If ircat, using the same lircrc, actually delivers the first
button press which otherwise is dropped then lirc actually seems OK to me.

To what extent can input events in mythfrontend be logged?

"Scratching head"

--alec