lirc mceusb "unresponsive" after adding transmitter

[David H. J. I. <dhj...@gm...>]

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Hello.

I recently had to start using an IR transmitter after Comcast rolled out 
DTAs in my area. I plugged the transmitter cable it into the back of the 
USB IR receiver I've been using for a few years and it worked fine. My 
issue is that my remote, which previously worked perfectly, is now 
somewhat buggy and unresponsive: Many of the buttons on the remote will 
stop working (as far as the MythTV frontend is concerned -- irw shows 
that a button is being pressed) after 30 to 90 seconds from the time the 
last button on the remote was pressed. The up, down, and pause buttons 
are exceptions to this -- pressing one of those buttons first "revives" 
the rest of the buttons on the remote. When I press one of those three 
buttons, it is recognized immediately, but multiple presses of one of 
the other buttons before pressing one of the "reviving" buttons doesn't 
create a response from the application.

I've had a little bit of luck changing the repeat values in my 
~/.lirc/mythtv, but that seems like a really kludgey solution and one 
that doesn't really address whatever the underlying problem is. I also 
tried using a different IR receiver/transmitter without success.

Thanks in advance.