[mythtv-users] MCE/HID remote double events

[Greg Oliver]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 7:18 PM Zachary Cutlip <uid000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to set up an MCE remote using evdev, and I'm getting double
> events in Mythfrontend for every key fairly consistently; maybe 80% of the
> time.
>
> I've set up the remote from a combination of these two wiki articles:
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/HID_Remotes
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:IR_control_via_evdev
>
> evtest usually doesn't report the extra event even when Mythtv does.
>
> I've even set repeat delay and period to really high values.
>
> For example, here's an instance where pressing "down" resulted in event,
> but 'evtest' didn't:
> Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
> Event: time 1560729712.782138, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value
> 800f041f
> Event: time 1560729712.782138, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 108 (KEY_DOWN), value
> 1
> Event: time 1560729712.782138, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
> Event: time 1560729712.888133, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value
> 800f041f
> Event: time 1560729712.888133, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
> Event: time 1560729713.022172, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value
> 800f041f
> Event: time 1560729713.022172, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
> Event: time 1560729713.294223, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 108 (KEY_DOWN), value
> 0
> Event: time 1560729713.294223, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
>
> Here's ir-keytable output:
>
> Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event8) with:
>         Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared Remote Transceiver
> (1784:0011)
>         Driver: mceusb, table: rc-rc6-mce
>         Supported protocols: rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6
> sharp xmp
>         Enabled protocols: rc-6
>         bus: 3, vendor/product: 1784:0011, version: 0x0100
>         Repeat delay = 10000 ms, repeat period = 10000 ms
>
> FIW the remote is a Logitech harmony 650 programmed as a Windows Media
> Center PC.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Zach
>
>
Long ago I had an issue like this and it was due to having multiple
definitions in the lirc config file.  It is nothing that simple is it
(hopefully)?

-Greg
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