LIRC + XBMC = Repeating Remote Buttons

Swifty · 2009-09-09 09:40

Thanks for the update guys.. hopefully we can nail down where the problem is.

@maxim
I'm pretty sure the inital 'gap' setting is right as I did try to create a new remote control last night and checked the gap setting from that against the one in the original mce config, it was extremely close.
Changing the value up, just makes the remote less responsive.. it's not ideal just a temporary measure till this one is figured out.

I couldn't complete making a new config though as the irrecord app kept on saying 'sorry, something went wrong' when I input the name for the buttons....

Will do some searching on the error and try again tonight.

@twilightzone
Interesting your not even using lirc.. do you get repeating keys if you quit xbmc and fire up x server with fluxbox or similar ?

I wonder if this is indeed all tied in to the bug that olympia noted with something wierd going on in xbmc event handler..

**olympia** · 2009-09-09 09:53

I was playing around with "lircd.conf.mceusb" yesterday evening, and in it's current form it seems much better on my side.

My lircd.conf.mceusb looks like this now:

Code:

#

# brand:                        HP 

# model no. of remote control:  TSGH-IR01

# devices being controlled by this remote: HP Slimline S3100y

#

# Derived from MCEUSB2 lircd.conf file (lircd.conf.mceusb) found at:

# https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty

#

# RC-6 config file

#

# source: http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/projects__remote_control.htm

#         http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/pronto.pdf

#

# used by: Philips

#

#########

#

# Philips Media Center Edition remote control

# For use with the USB MCE ir receiver

#

# Dan Conti  dconti|acm.wwu.edu

#

# Updated with codes for MCE 2005 Remote additional buttons

# *, #, Teletext, Red, Green, Yellow & Blue Buttons

# Note: TV power button transmits no code until programmed.

# Updated 12th September 2005

# Graham Auld - mce|graham.auld.me.uk

#

# Radio, Print, RecTV are only available on the HP Media Center remote control

#

#

# Updated with codes for MCE 2007 Remote additional buttons

# Visualization, Aspect, SlideShow, Eject

# Note: 

# Renamed some buttons: DVD->DVDMenu, More->MoreInfo, Star->Asterisk, Hash->Pound

# Note: 

# Blue, Yellow, Green, Red, and Teletext buttons do not exist on the HP remote

begin remote

  name        mceusb

  bits                 16

  flags  RC6|CONST_LENGTH

  eps                  30

  aeps                100

  header       2667   889

  one           444   444

  zero          444   444

  repeat          0     0 

  pre_data_bits        21

  pre_data        0x37FF0

  gap              115000

  toggle_bit           22

  rc6_mask    0x100000000

      begin codes

#unused by HP remote

    Blue          0x00007ba1

    Yellow          0x00007ba2

    Green          0x00007ba3

    Red          0x00007ba4

    Teletext      0x00007ba5

#ba6 - bae unused 

        BA6           0x00007ba6

        BA7           0x00007ba7

        BA8           0x00007ba8

        BA9           0x00007ba9

        BAA           0x00007baa

        BAB           0x00007bab

        BAC           0x00007bac

        BAD           0x00007bad

        BAE           0x00007bae

        Radio         0x00007baf

        Print         0x00007bb1

#bb2 - bb4 unused  

        BB2           0x00007bb2

        BB3           0x00007bb3

        BB4           0x00007bb4

        Videos        0x00007bb5

        Pictures      0x00007bb6

        RecTV         0x00007bb7

        Music         0x00007bb8

        TV            0x00007bb9

#bba - bbf unused 

        BBA           0x00007bba

        BBB           0x00007bbb

        BBC           0x00007bbc

        BBD           0x00007bbd

        BBE           0x00007bbe

        BBF           0x00007bbf

#bc1 - bca unused 

        BC1           0x00007bc1

        BC2           0x00007bc2

        BC3           0x00007bc3

        BC4           0x00007bc4

        BC5           0x00007bc5

        BC6           0x00007bc6

        BC7           0x00007bc7

        BC8           0x00007bc8

        BC9           0x00007bc9

        BCA           0x00007bca

        Eject         0x00007bcb

        SlideShow     0x00007bcc

        Visualization 0x00007bcd

#bce - bcf unused 

        BCE           0x00007bce

        BCF           0x00007bcf

#bd1 - bd7 unused 

        BD1           0x00007bd1

        BD2           0x00007bd2

        BD3           0x00007bd3

        BD4           0x00007bd4

        BD5           0x00007bd5

        BD6           0x00007bd6

        BD7           0x00007bd7

        Aspect        0x00007bd8

        Guide         0x00007bd9

        LiveTV        0x00007bda

        DVD           0x00007bdb

#NoGap

        Back          0x00007bdc

        OK            0x00007bdd

        Right         0x00007bde

        Left          0x00007bdf

        Down          0x00007be0

        Up            0x00007be1

#NoGap

        Star          0x00007be2

        Hash          0x00007be3

#NoGap

        Replay        0x00007be4

        Skip          0x00007be5

        Stop          0x00007be6

        Pause         0x00007be7

        Record        0x00007be8

        Play          0x00007be9

        Rewind        0x00007bea

        Forward       0x00007beb

#NoGap

        ChanDown      0x00007bec

        ChanUp        0x00007bed

        VolDown       0x00007bee

        VolUp         0x00007bef

#NoGap

        More          0x00007bf0

        Mute          0x00007bf1

        Home          0x00007bf2

        Power         0x00007bf3

#NoGap

        Enter         0x00007bf4

        Clear         0x00007bf5

#NoGap

        Nine          0x00007bf6

        Eight         0x00007bf7

        Seven         0x00007bf8

        Six           0x00007bf9

        Five          0x00007bfa

        Four          0x00007bfb

        Three         0x00007bfc

        Two           0x00007bfd

        One           0x00007bfe

        Zero          0x00007bff

      end codes

end remote

Note that I inserted "repeat 0 0 " before "gap", and also that I increased the "gap" from 105000 to 115000.
At the top of that, surprising or not, I needed the "remoterepeat" tweak in advancedsettings.xml too.

It looks like this:

Code:

<advancedsettings>

<remoterepeat>1000</remoterepeat>

</advancedsettings>

What is interesting, that after all the tweaks, I changed back everything to the default state to confirm that really the tweaks I made brought in the better behaviour. Surprisingly the repating issue didn't happen as frequent as before even with the default settings, so I am a bit confused now.

Could you please guys try this out and give some feedback on it?

Swifty · 2009-09-09 10:38

Thanks for the update on your finds olympia... will check this out tonight and let you know.

TwilightZone · 2009-09-09 16:32

yeah the remote works fine under gnome only oddity I saw was xev does show 2 events for every key press with both the keyboard and remote. With the keyboard however it only registers 1 where the remote doubles everything. A bug with event handler though would account for my issue. I switched back to the svn PPA hopefully there is a fix in the pipe soon. Until then I'll continue to to wrestle with it nothing suggested so far has made any difference.

Swifty · 2009-09-09 21:34

Just tried out olympia's tweaks and no difference for me. Sad

Will keep digging with the irrecord errors and see if I can make a mapping of my remote.. hopefully that will help.

locust · 2009-10-07 10:10

Bump

I am also having the same problem.

Using a USB-UIRT and Harmony remote; after setting repeats to '0' in the Harmony software, each keypress is triggering 2 commands, making navigating/playing a royal bitch unless you quickly tap each button and hope for the best

Any luck with eliminating the remote repeats?

Thanks

essence25 · 2009-10-09 16:48

olympia Wrote:I was playing around with "lircd.conf.mceusb" yesterday evening, and in it's current form it seems much better on my side.

My lircd.conf.mceusb looks like this now:

Code:

# # brand: HP # model no. of remote control: TSGH-IR01 # devices being controlled by this remote: HP Slimline S3100y # # Derived from MCEUSB2 lircd.conf file (lircd.conf.mceusb) found at: # https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty # # RC-6 config file # # source: http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/projects__remote_control.htm # http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/pronto.pdf # # used by: Philips # ######### # # Philips Media Center Edition remote control # For use with the USB MCE ir receiver # # Dan Conti dconti|acm.wwu.edu # # Updated with codes for MCE 2005 Remote additional buttons # *, #, Teletext, Red, Green, Yellow & Blue Buttons # Note: TV power button transmits no code until programmed. # Updated 12th September 2005 # Graham Auld - mce|graham.auld.me.uk # # Radio, Print, RecTV are only available on the HP Media Center remote control # # # Updated with codes for MCE 2007 Remote additional buttons # Visualization, Aspect, SlideShow, Eject # Note: # Renamed some buttons: DVD->DVDMenu, More->MoreInfo, Star->Asterisk, Hash->Pound # Note: # Blue, Yellow, Green, Red, and Teletext buttons do not exist on the HP remote begin remote name mceusb bits 16 flags RC6|CONST_LENGTH eps 30 aeps 100 header 2667 889 one 444 444 zero 444 444 repeat 0 0 pre_data_bits 21 pre_data 0x37FF0 gap 115000 toggle_bit 22 rc6_mask 0x100000000 begin codes #unused by HP remote Blue 0x00007ba1 Yellow 0x00007ba2 Green 0x00007ba3 Red 0x00007ba4 Teletext 0x00007ba5 #ba6 - bae unused BA6 0x00007ba6 BA7 0x00007ba7 BA8 0x00007ba8 BA9 0x00007ba9 BAA 0x00007baa BAB 0x00007bab BAC 0x00007bac BAD 0x00007bad BAE 0x00007bae Radio 0x00007baf Print 0x00007bb1 #bb2 - bb4 unused BB2 0x00007bb2 BB3 0x00007bb3 BB4 0x00007bb4 Videos 0x00007bb5 Pictures 0x00007bb6 RecTV 0x00007bb7 Music 0x00007bb8 TV 0x00007bb9 #bba - bbf unused BBA 0x00007bba BBB 0x00007bbb BBC 0x00007bbc BBD 0x00007bbd BBE 0x00007bbe BBF 0x00007bbf #bc1 - bca unused BC1 0x00007bc1 BC2 0x00007bc2 BC3 0x00007bc3 BC4 0x00007bc4 BC5 0x00007bc5 BC6 0x00007bc6 BC7 0x00007bc7 BC8 0x00007bc8 BC9 0x00007bc9 BCA 0x00007bca Eject 0x00007bcb SlideShow 0x00007bcc Visualization 0x00007bcd #bce - bcf unused BCE 0x00007bce BCF 0x00007bcf #bd1 - bd7 unused BD1 0x00007bd1 BD2 0x00007bd2 BD3 0x00007bd3 BD4 0x00007bd4 BD5 0x00007bd5 BD6 0x00007bd6 BD7 0x00007bd7 Aspect 0x00007bd8 Guide 0x00007bd9 LiveTV 0x00007bda DVD 0x00007bdb #NoGap Back 0x00007bdc OK 0x00007bdd Right 0x00007bde Left 0x00007bdf Down 0x00007be0 Up 0x00007be1 #NoGap Star 0x00007be2 Hash 0x00007be3 #NoGap Replay 0x00007be4 Skip 0x00007be5 Stop 0x00007be6 Pause 0x00007be7 Record 0x00007be8 Play 0x00007be9 Rewind 0x00007bea Forward 0x00007beb #NoGap ChanDown 0x00007bec ChanUp 0x00007bed VolDown 0x00007bee VolUp 0x00007bef #NoGap More 0x00007bf0 Mute 0x00007bf1 Home 0x00007bf2 Power 0x00007bf3 #NoGap Enter 0x00007bf4 Clear 0x00007bf5 #NoGap Nine 0x00007bf6 Eight 0x00007bf7 Seven 0x00007bf8 Six 0x00007bf9 Five 0x00007bfa Four 0x00007bfb Three 0x00007bfc Two 0x00007bfd One 0x00007bfe Zero 0x00007bff end codes end remote

Note that I inserted "repeat 0 0 " before "gap", and also that I increased the "gap" from 105000 to 115000.
At the top of that, surprising or not, I needed the "remoterepeat" tweak in advancedsettings.xml too.

It looks like this:

Code:

<advancedsettings> <remoterepeat>1000</remoterepeat> </advancedsettings>

What is interesting, that after all the tweaks, I changed back everything to the default state to confirm that really the tweaks I made brought in the better behaviour. Surprisingly the repating issue didn't happen as frequent as before even with the default settings, so I am a bit confused now.

Could you please guys try this out and give some feedback on it?

Hi,

Where is this "advancedsettings.xml" supposed to be found in? It is not in my XBMC live filesystem.

Also can your tweak be tailored to this remote please? LIRCD configuration file for Xbox DVD Kit
#
# Marko Friedemann <mfr@bmx-chemnitz.de>
#
#
# brand: Microsoft
# model: Xbox DVD Remote
# supported devices: Xbox DVD Remote via xpad-ir driver
#
# comment: EXPERIMENTAL
#

begin remote

name XboxDVDDongle
# eps 30
# aeps 100

gap 100000
bits 8

begin codes

SELECT 0x0b
UP 0xa6
DOWN 0xa7
RIGHT 0xa8
LEFT 0xa9
INFO 0xc3

9 0xc6
8 0xc7
7 0xc8
6 0xc9
5 0xca
4 0xcb
3 0xcc
2 0xcd
1 0xce
0 0xcf

DISPLAY 0xd5
BACK 0xd8
SKIP+ 0xdd
SKIP- 0xdf
STOP 0xe0
REVERSE 0xe2
FORWARD 0xe3
TITLE 0xe5
PAUSE 0xe6
PLAY 0xea
MENU 0xf7

Paulicat · 2009-10-14 15:11

Hey everyone, I was having the same repeat key problem as described in this thread, so searched and tried something out last night that initially came from the windows subforum.
In the Harmony software, I removed the MCE Remote device and added a "MCE Keyboard" instead, everything else left as is, no custom keymap.xml or anything.
Its unlisted, just type it in as "MCE Keyboard".
No more repeats!
My media keys (play/pause etc) and directional keys all worked out of the box so no need to adjust anything.
Try it out!

Evanrich · 2009-12-09 22:17

olympia Wrote:I was playing around with "lircd.conf.mceusb" yesterday evening, and in it's current form it seems much better on my side.

My lircd.conf.mceusb looks like this now:

Code:

# # brand: HP # model no. of remote control: TSGH-IR01 # devices being controlled by this remote: HP Slimline S3100y # # Derived from MCEUSB2 lircd.conf file (lircd.conf.mceusb) found at: # https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Feisty # # RC-6 config file # # source: http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/projects__remote_control.htm # http://home.hccnet.nl/m.majoor/pronto.pdf # # used by: Philips # ######### # # Philips Media Center Edition remote control # For use with the USB MCE ir receiver # # Dan Conti dconti|acm.wwu.edu # # Updated with codes for MCE 2005 Remote additional buttons # *, #, Teletext, Red, Green, Yellow & Blue Buttons # Note: TV power button transmits no code until programmed. # Updated 12th September 2005 # Graham Auld - mce|graham.auld.me.uk # # Radio, Print, RecTV are only available on the HP Media Center remote control # # # Updated with codes for MCE 2007 Remote additional buttons # Visualization, Aspect, SlideShow, Eject # Note: # Renamed some buttons: DVD->DVDMenu, More->MoreInfo, Star->Asterisk, Hash->Pound # Note: # Blue, Yellow, Green, Red, and Teletext buttons do not exist on the HP remote begin remote name mceusb bits 16 flags RC6|CONST_LENGTH eps 30 aeps 100 header 2667 889 one 444 444 zero 444 444 repeat 0 0 pre_data_bits 21 pre_data 0x37FF0 gap 115000 toggle_bit 22 rc6_mask 0x100000000 begin codes #unused by HP remote Blue 0x00007ba1 Yellow 0x00007ba2 Green 0x00007ba3 Red 0x00007ba4 Teletext 0x00007ba5 #ba6 - bae unused BA6 0x00007ba6 BA7 0x00007ba7 BA8 0x00007ba8 BA9 0x00007ba9 BAA 0x00007baa BAB 0x00007bab BAC 0x00007bac BAD 0x00007bad BAE 0x00007bae Radio 0x00007baf Print 0x00007bb1 #bb2 - bb4 unused BB2 0x00007bb2 BB3 0x00007bb3 BB4 0x00007bb4 Videos 0x00007bb5 Pictures 0x00007bb6 RecTV 0x00007bb7 Music 0x00007bb8 TV 0x00007bb9 #bba - bbf unused BBA 0x00007bba BBB 0x00007bbb BBC 0x00007bbc BBD 0x00007bbd BBE 0x00007bbe BBF 0x00007bbf #bc1 - bca unused BC1 0x00007bc1 BC2 0x00007bc2 BC3 0x00007bc3 BC4 0x00007bc4 BC5 0x00007bc5 BC6 0x00007bc6 BC7 0x00007bc7 BC8 0x00007bc8 BC9 0x00007bc9 BCA 0x00007bca Eject 0x00007bcb SlideShow 0x00007bcc Visualization 0x00007bcd #bce - bcf unused BCE 0x00007bce BCF 0x00007bcf #bd1 - bd7 unused BD1 0x00007bd1 BD2 0x00007bd2 BD3 0x00007bd3 BD4 0x00007bd4 BD5 0x00007bd5 BD6 0x00007bd6 BD7 0x00007bd7 Aspect 0x00007bd8 Guide 0x00007bd9 LiveTV 0x00007bda DVD 0x00007bdb #NoGap Back 0x00007bdc OK 0x00007bdd Right 0x00007bde Left 0x00007bdf Down 0x00007be0 Up 0x00007be1 #NoGap Star 0x00007be2 Hash 0x00007be3 #NoGap Replay 0x00007be4 Skip 0x00007be5 Stop 0x00007be6 Pause 0x00007be7 Record 0x00007be8 Play 0x00007be9 Rewind 0x00007bea Forward 0x00007beb #NoGap ChanDown 0x00007bec ChanUp 0x00007bed VolDown 0x00007bee VolUp 0x00007bef #NoGap More 0x00007bf0 Mute 0x00007bf1 Home 0x00007bf2 Power 0x00007bf3 #NoGap Enter 0x00007bf4 Clear 0x00007bf5 #NoGap Nine 0x00007bf6 Eight 0x00007bf7 Seven 0x00007bf8 Six 0x00007bf9 Five 0x00007bfa Four 0x00007bfb Three 0x00007bfc Two 0x00007bfd One 0x00007bfe Zero 0x00007bff end codes end remote

Note that I inserted "repeat 0 0 " before "gap", and also that I increased the "gap" from 105000 to 115000.
At the top of that, surprising or not, I needed the "remoterepeat" tweak in advancedsettings.xml too.

It looks like this:

Code:

<advancedsettings> <remoterepeat>1000</remoterepeat> </advancedsettings>

What is interesting, that after all the tweaks, I changed back everything to the default state to confirm that really the tweaks I made brought in the better behaviour. Surprisingly the repating issue didn't happen as frequent as before even with the default settings, so I am a bit confused now.

Could you please guys try this out and give some feedback on it?

can you clarify what repeat 0 0 does? I'm guessing that it tells lirc not to repeat the command....does this take care of the issue with IRW showing 3 button presses for remotes?

mrloofer · 2010-02-10 06:23

Swifty were you able to resolve this?

I have the exact same problem with the Mediagate MCE remote. Kinda frustrating!

Swifty Fan Posts: 482 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 1	2009-09-09 10:38 Post: #23 Thanks for the update on your finds olympia... will check this out tonight and let you know.
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Swifty Fan Posts: 482 Joined: Nov 2008 Reputation: 1	2009-09-09 21:34 Post: #25 Just tried out olympia's tweaks and no difference for me. Will keep digging with the irrecord errors and see if I can make a mapping of my remote.. hopefully that will help.
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locust Member Posts: 70 Joined: Aug 2009 Reputation: 0	2009-10-07 10:10 Post: #26 Bump I am also having the same problem. Using a USB-UIRT and Harmony remote; after setting repeats to '0' in the Harmony software, each keypress is triggering 2 commands, making navigating/playing a royal bitch unless you quickly tap each button and hope for the best Any luck with eliminating the remote repeats? Thanks
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mrloofer Member Posts: 73 Joined: Feb 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-02-10 06:23 Post: #30 Swifty were you able to resolve this? I have the exact same problem with the Mediagate MCE remote. Kinda frustrating!
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