Re: lirc mceusb "unresponsive" after adding transmitter

[Jarod W. <ja...@wi...>]

On Apr 3, 2011, at 10:05 AM, David H. Johnson, III wrote:

> On 04/02/2011 09:38 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Apr 2, 2011, at 9:31 AM, David H. Johnson, III wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> There are quite a few details missing here... What version of lirc userspace?
>> Which driver and what version of it, and what kernel? What remote?
>> 
>> Though for what its worth, sounds a bit like your problems could be due to
>> flat batteries in your remote. The signals for some buttons require less
>> pulses than others, which may let them continue to work more consistently
>> when your batteries are on their way out.
>> 
> Jarod,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I'm running version 0.8.7 on 2.6.35.

Vanilla 2.6.35, or a particular distro's 2.6.35?

> I'm not sure how to determine which driver and version I'm using.

dmesg and/or lsmod/modinfo output.

> I'm using a Logitech Harmony One that functions like a "dogbone" mceusb remote.
> 
> I've confirmed that I'm not having issues with batteries:

Okay, good to rule that out (though I was hoping that was it...).

> not only have I swapped out batteries, tried another universal remote, tried the original dogbone remote, and tried another USB receiver (all of which produced the same results), but as I said, irw shows that buttons are being pressed.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

Only "try newer mceusb driver code, see if it works better".

This other receiver, also mceusb?

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Jarod Wilson
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