Remote control problem (Milhouse nightly build)

Avok78 · April 29, 2017 at 6:03 PM

Hi all,

I'm having some problem with the media center USB remote control connected to a X86 laptop and libreelec:

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LibreELEC:~ # ir-keytable
Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ (/dev/input/event10) with:
    Driver mceusb, table rc-rc6-mce
    Supported protocols: unknown other lirc rc-5 rc-5-sz jvc sony nec sanyo mce_kbd rc-6 sharp xmp
    Enabled protocols: lirc nec rc-6
    Name: Media Center Ed. eHome Infrared
    bus: 3, vendor/product: 0471:060c, version: 0x0101
    Repeat delay = 500 ms, repeat period = 125 ms

It's almost a year that I'm using the Milhouse nightly build releases and I noticed that starting from the release:

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LibreELEC (community) Version: devel-20170407212644-#0407-gf3caa55
LibreELEC git: f3caa554927846aca7c85bb723b9c9f7f90cce70


http://milhouse.libreelec.tv/builds/master/Generic/LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.0-Milhouse-20170407212644-%230407-gf3caa55.tar

my remote control stopped to work properly.
Basically when a remote key is pressed, it's like it's pressed twice.
For instance: when the up key is pressed on the main menu, the cursor moves two items up.
I don't have any particular configuration saved on my /.config/ folder (I always used the default configuration provided)

Instead, I don't have any problem with the day before release (the last release that works for me):

Code

LibreELEC (community) Version: devel-20170406210249-#0406-gf3caa55
LibreELEC git: f3caa554927846aca7c85bb723b9c9f7f90cce70


http://milhouse.libreelec.tv/builds/master/Generic/LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.0-Milhouse-20170406210249-%230406-gf3caa55.tar

Any help?
Thank you in advance for your response.

Regards.

**HiassofT** · April 30, 2017 at 9:36 AM

Your remote presses are both decoded by the kernel and by lirc. In this case disable lirc in LE settings so that only in-kernel decoding is used. If needed you can change remote button configuration via ir-keytable (instead of lircd.conf) - see here for more details about it:
thread-7152-post-43745.html#pid43745

Before you disable lirc in the LE settings it would be great if you could upload some logs:

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systemctl status lircd.service | paste
journalctl -a | paste
dmesg | paste
ir-keytable | paste

When lirc is started it should disable in-kernel decoding - at least it's doing this in my test setups. So it would be great to know why this isn't happening on your setup.

so long,

Hias

Avok78 · April 30, 2017 at 1:26 PM

Hi,
thanks for your help.
I disabled the LIRC service and It worked

Thanks!

TCC · July 8, 2017 at 1:15 PM

Thanks for the help. Just updated my Kaby Lake Brix machines to a Milhouse build and was getting the same problem. Disabling Lirc set everything back to normal.