Re: irman spurious keypresses

[Torgeir V. <to...@po...>]

On 25 Mar 2007, at 20:54, Torgeir Veimo wrote:

>
> On 25 Mar 2007, at 10:18, Roland Mieslinger wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:47 +0000, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
>>> My irman receiver (used with libirman 0.4.2 and lirc 0.8.1 and a
>>> hauppauge grey remote) gives me random spurious keypresses. They
>>> happen completely random, and it seems there are only a handful few
>>> keys it reports when it happens.
>>
>> sometimes this happens because of dirt and dust on the keypad of the
>> remote. In that case the commands are really sent from your remote.
>>
>>> Anyone else seen similar problems? Can it be infrared noise, or
>>> something related to serial port config, irq etc?
>>
>> Bring the remote in another room, in a box or remove batteries, and
>> wait
>> if you still get random keypresses. If so, the problem is because of
>> "noise", but I bet it's from your remote control.
>
> I've tried hiding the remote and it still happens. It seems fine in
> the day, it only happens in the evening, when the remote sensor also
> seems to react much slower.

The irman is quite old, almost nine years, and it has been lying  
around unused for at least five. I assume some component inside must  
be broken, so it's prob time to replace it..

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Torgeir Veimo
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