Re: My Wife Crashes? Lirc

[Rick W. <ri...@sa...>]

I think I've had similar problems.  I too use a serial receiver, and I find 
that occasionally my serial receiver gets several steps behind.  This has 
happened for a very long time, and has happened using the same receiver with 
many different versions of lirc and with 2 different computers.  Basically, 
my remote presses get "queued" up.  For example, if it's behind 3 presses 
(most common number I've found) and I hit down, left, power, and then ok, the 
down, left, and power got queued up.  When I hit OK, the down event is 
handled.  Hitting any button then hits left, another button then sends the 
power, and another button then sends the ok.  I bet the issue of "seeing" all 
the IR traffic may be related, as I've never had the problem occur using my 
laptop's irda port as a receiver.

Rick


On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:24, Jake Thompson wrote:
> Hi All,
> First some specs
> lirc-0.8.2-66_cvs20070301.fc6.at x86_64 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
>
> I am using lirc for mythtv.  And here is the situation.
>
> 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).
>
> However, when using the PVR-150 receiver with the Hauppauge remote, it
> works fine and never crashes out.
>
> So, here is my theory.  My wife is slightly deaf, so she watches TV with
> the remote in hand and finger on the volume.  The volume is directly
> controling my receiver and does not pass through my myth box.  However, the
> serial receiver is still trying to process all those signals(I think).  I
> do not have those signals mapped or even setup as a known remote, but I
> beleive there is still some processing that is done.  As far as how much
> does she use the volume, well there is a red led that lights up and it is
> pretty much always on while she is watching.
>
> When I switch to the PVR-150 receiver, it only process a certain signal
> protocol, the volume does not use this protocol, so therefore all is good.
>
> Does this theory make sense?  Is it possible?  What can I do?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> Jake

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