Re: Problems with dev/input device and NULL values

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Hi!

Mark Buechler "mar...@gm..." wrote:
>> I'm trying to get a Twinhan USB remote working. The remote's keyboard HID
>> shows up as /dev/input/event1. I've compiled lirc for devinput and ran:
>>
>> irrecord -H dev/input -d /dev/input/event1 test.conf
>>
>> Irrecord sees my key presses, but all button values end up being 0x0:
[...]
> Upon further investigation, it looks like I'm getting quite a few sync
> packets from this device. I see in the source EV_SYN is being ignored,
> however, not fully ignored. Instead of a decoded packet being returned to
> irrecord, a NULL packet is sent instead. It seems irrecord isn't checking
> for NULL packets.

Seems you are on the right track.
Can you try to change this line in hw_devinput.c:

if(event.type == EV_SYN) return NULL;

to

if(event.type == EV_SYN) return devinput_rec(remotes);

Christoph