[mythtvnz] Myth not responding to remote

[James Booth]

On Thu, 06 May 2010 11:07:20 Dr. David J. Knowles wrote:
> I have seen that once before. It happens when the LIRC configuration 
> file has mappings for myth TV as an application and the same mappings 
> using irexec. Try checking the configuration files to see if there are 
> generic mappings which would apply for any application as well as the 
> mappings for Myth TV.
> 
> David
> 
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> On 06/05/10 10:55, James Booth wrote:
> >
> > That’s weird. Thanks for that, will try it when I get home.
> >
> > *From:* mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz 
> > [mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Mark Kendall
> > *Sent:* Thursday, 6 May 2010 10:42 a.m.
> > *To:* MythTV in NZ
> > *Subject:* Re: [mythtvnz] Myth not responding to remote
> >
> > I've had a bunch of problems upgrading from Mythbuntu 9.10 to 10.04 
> > (needed to remove mythbuntu-desktop to do the dist-upgrade, remove all 
> > mythtv apps and reinstall to get 0.23, install autobuild to get latest 
> > 0.23 frontend to avoid qt segfault on startup, imon pad remote driver 
> > not installed correctly)
> >
> > One thing I noticed this morning and need to investigate further is 
> > that the remote was acting as if it was doing double keypresses in 
> > mythfrontend.  irw only showed one key press per button push.  I 
> > stopped lircd, did a ps -Af to check lirc wasn't running and was 
> > surprised to go back into myth and see that the remote was working and 
> > myth was no longer receiving double key presses.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
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I have found the problem. For some reason my remote has changed from being 
identified by lirc as an mceusb to being identified as an mceusb_hauppauge, 
which it is not. Have modified lircrc to use the new identifier and now all is 
good. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.