irsend goes into loop after processing single command

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#348 irsend goes into loop after processing single command

Milestone: Future

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Resolution: na

Updated: 2019-07-13

Created: 2019-07-13

Creator: Bryan Hunter

Private: No

The irsend prcessed a single command and then ran into trouble finally ending up in a loop generating the below message. The trouble was either that there were half a dozen commands given simultaneously which confused it, or it found previous commands and started trying to process them. There is an application log showing that only 1 request was made to irsend. I tend to think it found misc old commands because it appears every normal successful irsend command ends in an unsuccessful search of all the conf files. The good news is that low level logging was still on from another issue I was looking at.

"irsend: fill_string: timeout"

Here is various configuration information for this Raspberry Pi 3 B+. The syslog is attached. The error was at "Wed Jul 10 07:29:03 EDT 2019" with the application command "exit".

uname -a

Linux StevenPi 4.14.98-v7+ #1200 SMP Tue Feb 12 20:27:48 GMT 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

lircd -v

lircd 0.9.4c

irsend -v

irsend 0.9.4c

igdaemon -V

Software version: 1.2.0

cat lirc_options.conf

Generated by lirc-setup

[lircd]
nodaemon = False
driver = iguanaIR
device = /var/run/iguanaIR/0
output = /var/run/lirc/lircd
pidfile = /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
plugindir = /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lirc/plugins
permission = 666
allow-simulate = No
repeat-max = 600
lircd_conf = Seiki.conf
loglevel = 3
debug = 3

[lircmd]
uinput = False
nodaemon = True

[modinit]
code = echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols

cat Seiki.conf

Please take the time to finish this file as described in

https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc-remotes/wiki/Checklist/

and make it available to others by sending it to

lirc@bartelmus.de

This config file was automatically generated

using lirc-0.9.4c(default) on Sun Apr 28 13:53:48 2019

Command line used:

Kernel version (uname -r): 4.14.98-v7+

Remote name (as of config file): Seiki

Brand of remote device, the thing you hold in your hand:

Remote device model nr:

Remote device info url:

Does remote device has a bundled capture device e. g., a

usb dongle? :

For bundled USB devices: usb vendor id, product id

and device string (use dmesg or lsusb):

Type of device controlled

(TV, VCR, Audio, DVD, Satellite, Cable, HTPC, ...) :

Device(s) controlled by this remote:

begin remote

name Seiki
bits 32
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100

header 9012 4375
one 596 1614
zero 596 491
ptrail 596
repeat 9005 2170
gap 108214
toggle_bit_mask 0x0

  begin codes
      KEY_POWER                0x40BE629D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_MUTE                 0x40BE32CD 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_1                    0x40BE807F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_2                    0x40BE40BF 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_3                    0x40BEC03F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_4                    0x40BE20DF 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_5                    0x40BEA05F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_6                    0x40BE609F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_7                    0x40BEE01F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_8                    0x40BE10EF 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_9                    0x40BE906F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_-                    0x40BE42BD 0x7E85346C
      KEY_0                    0x40BE00FF 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_PREVIOUS             0x40BE827D 0x7E8B234C
      KEY_VUDU                 0x40BE2AD5 0x7E85346C
      KEY_YOUTUBE              0x40BE9A65 0x7E85346C
      KEY_PANDORA              0x40BE5CA3 0x7E85346C
      KEY_TOONGOGGLES          0x40BE7A85 0x7E85346C
      KEY_ACCUWEATHER          0x40BEDC23 0x7E85346C
      KEY_NETFLIX              0x40BEFA05 0x7E85346C
      KEY_MENU                 0x40BEA25D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_UP                   0x40BE12ED 0x7E85346C
      KEY_SOURCE               0x40BED22D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_LEFT                 0x40BE728D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_OK                   0x40BE52AD 0x7E85346C
      KEY_RIGHT                0x40BE926D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_RETURN               0x40BE18E7 0x7E85346C
      KEY_DOWN                 0x40BEB24D 0x7E85346C
      KEY_EXIT                 0x40BEB04F 0x7E85346C
      KEY_VOLUMEUP             0x40BE30CF 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_TV                   0x40BE28D7 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_CHANNELUP            0x40BEF00F 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_VOLUMEDOWN           0x40BE9867 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_INFO                 0x40BEF20D 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_CHANNELDOWN          0x40BE5AA5 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_STOP                 0x40BEE817 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_RED                  0x40BEEA15 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_GREEN                0x40BE02FD 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_YELLOW               0x40BEAA55 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_BLUE                 0x40BE6897 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_SLEEP                0x40BE8877 0x7EFF638C
      KEY_HDMI                 0x40BEBC43 0x7E8B234C
      KEY_VGA                  0x40BE7C83 0x7E8B234C
      KEY_USB                  0x40BEFC03 0x7E8B234C

  end codes

end remote

Section of the application log named "test".

Wed Jul 10 02:05:41 EDT 2019 tv
Wed Jul 10 02:05:42 EDT 2019 tv
Wed Jul 10 02:05:42 EDT 2019 exit
Wed Jul 10 02:05:42 EDT 2019 mute
Wed Jul 10 02:05:43 EDT 2019 volume-down
Wed Jul 10 02:05:43 EDT 2019 POWER
Wed Jul 10 04:21:02 EDT 2019 info
Wed Jul 10 04:21:02 EDT 2019 volume-up
Wed Jul 10 04:21:02 EDT 2019 POWER
Wed Jul 10 04:21:03 EDT 2019 hdmi
Wed Jul 10 04:21:03 EDT 2019 mute
Wed Jul 10 04:21:03 EDT 2019 vga
Wed Jul 10 04:21:41 EDT 2019 channel-up
Wed Jul 10 04:22:12 EDT 2019 volume-up
Wed Jul 10 04:29:02 EDT 2019 channel-up
Wed Jul 10 04:29:26 EDT 2019 channel-up
Wed Jul 10 05:30:46 EDT 2019 channel-down
Wed Jul 10 07:29:03 EDT 2019 exit
Wed Jul 10 19:54:42 EDT 2019 channel 56-3

The command files used to call irsend

cat channel-up

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_CHANNELUP
echo "$(date) channel-up" >> test

cat channel-down

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_CHANNELDOWN
echo "$(date) channel-down" >> test

cat exit

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_EXIT
echo "$(date) exit" >> test

cat info

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_INFO
echo "$(date) info" >> test

cat power

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_POWER
echo "$(date) POWER" >> test

cat input-hdmi

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_HDMI
echo "$(date) hdmi" >> test

cat input-tv

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_TV
echo "$(date) tv" >> test

cat mute

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_MUTE
echo "$(date) mute" >> test

cat volume-up

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_VOLUMEUP
echo "$(date) volume-up" >> test

cat volume-down

irsend SET_TRANSMITTERS 1
irsend SEND_ONCE Seiki KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
echo "$(date) volume-down" >> test

1 Attachments

irsend-hang.syslog

Discussion

Bengt Martensson - 2019-07-13

First of all, irsend is just a dumb program that essentially tells lircd "please send command command from the remote remote n times. So it is unlikely that the problem is that "irsend hangs".

"SET TRANSMITTERS" is sticky; it is enough to send it once per session.

You appear to be flooding lircd with commands. Lircd is buggy, and flooding it certainly can trigger its bugs (For example, at Jul 10 07:29:02 , you send four (!!) "SET TRANSMITTERS"-commands.) Please try to resolve this flooding, possibly that is enough.

Finally, please learn how to format mark-down documents...

Last edit: Bengt Martensson 2019-07-13

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