Slow Apple Remote on Apple TV
#1
I have XBMC setup on my Apple TV. I find the Apple remote very very slow to respond on the XBMC (it's not the battery). I find I have to press between 3 to 5 times before it responds. Is this normal? (I tried a different remote too...)
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#2
Does it happen all the time ?
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#3
Happens to me all the time too...I've been searching for an alternate way to control xbmc/hulu on the appletv...VNC would be nice...
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#4
tintamarre Wrote:Does it happen all the time ?
Most of the time... it seems quite erratic though: sometime it's as fast and responsive as it should be, other times it takes at least 3 presses before it responds... it's a pain in the neck especially when I have to set things up (usernames, passwords, lots of folder navigations etc.). I will try changing the battery although I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with it.
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#5
"tail -f" the console.log when you diddle the IR remote. The xbmchelper used by launcher outputs logging info into console.log.
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#6
I get the exact same problems with the remote being unresponsive. I was running Launcher 0.8 and Atlantis with atv 2.2 and it was all fine. I then upgraded to atv 2.3, Launcher 2.2 and now I get really sluggish IR remote.

Roy.
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#7
roydonaldson Wrote:I get the exact same problems with the remote being unresponsive. I was running Launcher 0.8 and Atlantis with atv 2.2 and it was all fine. I then upgraded to atv 2.3, Launcher 2.2 and now I get really sluggish IR remote.

Roy.

"tail -f" the console.log when you diddle the IR remote. The xbmchelper used by launcher outputs logging info into console.log.
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#8
Where is console.log ?
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#9
roydonaldson Wrote:Where is console.log ?

sudo find / -name console.log -print
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#10
Copy of console.log can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/m2195042e
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#11
roydonaldson Wrote:Copy of console.log can be found here:

http://pastebin.com/m2195042e

Quote:2009-01-06 21:55:09.828 xbmchelper[164] Unknown button for cookiestring 280_
2009-01-06 21:55:09.953 xbmchelper[164] Unknown button for cookiestring 280_
2009-01-06 21:55:10.080 xbmchelper[164] Unknown button for cookiestring 280_
2009-01-06 21:55:10.206 xbmchelper[164] Unknown button for cookiestring 280_
2009-01-06 21:55:10.331 xbmchelper[164] Unknown button for cookiestring 280_
2009-01-06 22:15:53.867 xbmchelper[164] (pressed) Volume down
2009-01-06 22:15:54.126 xbmchelper[164] (released) Volume down
2009-01-06 22:15:56.277 xbmchelper[164] (pressed) Play (sleep mode)
2009-01-06 22:15:56.344 xbmchelper[164] (released) Play (sleep mode)
2009-01-06 22:15:59.314 xbmchelper[164] (pressed) Play
2009-01-06 22:15:59.315 xbmchelper[164] (released) Play

The "Unknown button for cookiestring 280_" is some other IR remote that was seen by the Apple IR receiver and ignored. This is normal and not a problem.

You are getting individual pressed/released events, that's good. The time delta between pressed and released events is small so the IR handler is correctly seeing the IR events in a timely fashion. So there is no problem with the fundamental IR handling.

Your post says "I get really sluggish IR remote". Let's get more descriptive and better describe the issue. Say you are at the main XBMC GUI level, if you go up/down through the entries, what happens? How long does it take to go from "Videos" to the next entry?

I did notice this:

Quote:Jan 6 21:35:38 AppleTV ntpdate[124]: can't find host time.apple.com
Jan 6 21:35:38 AppleTV ntpdate[124]: no servers can be used, exiting

Is this AppleTV isolated from the internet? Just wondering why can't it find time.apple.com?

A pastebin of the xbmc.log would be good to see now.

"sudo find / -name xbmc.log -print"

will show the location. To keep this log small, launch XBMC. Diddle the IR remote enough to replicate your sluggish IR remote issue, then quit XBMC and grab xbmc.log.
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#12
It's the Menu and Select buttons that seem to cause problems. I can hit Menu 3 times and nothing happens, then hit Up arrow and that works no problems.

I'm using a Universal Remote, but the exact same thing happens with the Apple Remote for me.

Will get more debug tomorrow.

Roy.
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