Re: My Wife Crashes? Lirc

[Jake T. <ja...@ja...>]

On 27 Mar 2007 19:45:00 +0200, Christoph Bartelmus <li...@ba...>
wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Jake Thompson "ja...@ja..." wrote:
> [...]
> > I have 2 IR receivers, one is a homebrew serial receiver from
> > irblaster.infoand the other is the built in PVR-150 receiver.
> >
> > What I am seeing is this, when using any remote with the serial
> receiver,
> > after a while it stops responding, no errors in any of the logs(mythtv,
> or
> > any system log).
>
> Short troubleshooting procedure when the problem occurs:
>
> 1. Is irw generating any output?


No output from irw.


If yes, it's a client problem. Unlikely in your case.
>
> 2. Is mode2 generating any output?


Well can't connect because myth is keeping the device busy, as soon as I
restart mythfrontned, it clears up(probably should have mentioned this).


If yes, does it look different from the usual output?
> Post some mode2 data and the lircd.conf config file that you are using.
>
> 3. Is the receiver still generating interrupts?
>
> You can see the interrupt count doing a "cat /proc/interrupts".
> It should increase if there is IR activity.


I will try this tonight, american idol is on, so she is bound to crash it,
by the way this usually happens 1-2 times a night.


If no, try if unloading and loading lirc_serial helps.
> Try if unplugging and replugging the receiver helps.



I will give it a try

Thanks,
Jake