[russg]

I have had a problem with getting xbmc to respond after it had been idle for a while. I posted here about the problem: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82853

I made a guess that the problem was with lircd and not xbmc as I could still send xbmc-send commands to the interface which worked.

Well, long story short is that I upgraded from from lirc 0.8.6 which shipped with Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS to 0.8.7 released *Sept 6th 2010* that I compiled myself. So far the remote responds better than ever before and I haven't seen the hang after idle problem return.

As this has been my only issue with the Dharma builds I'll be very happy to put this one to bed.

[japher]

russg, did upgrading to 0.8.7 really solve the idle problem in the end?

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 with Lirc 0.8.7-pre3 and I have exactly the same problem. If the system is idle for a while, the remote no longer works.

When XBMC begins to ignore the commands, irw receives no commands either and restarting the lirc service does nothing. As far as I can tell a system restart is the only way to fix it when it gets in this state

I've been googling for a while without any luck. As a last resort I'm thinking that maybe moving to 11.04 might help (looks like I would go from lirc 0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1 to 0.8.7-ubuntu4.1).