[mythtv-users] Single key press on remote control
produces multiple characters
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jun 18 15:09:11 UTC 2005
David Watkins wrote:
>On 15/06/05, Neale Swinnerton <mythtv-users.spam at isismanor.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Have a look at the 'delay' arg in your .lircrc
>>
>I've just spent the weekend setting up a universal remote. Using irw
>I can see that a key press always generates at least 2 duplicate codes
>and normally 3 or 4. However this only gets translated as a single
>press within MythTV.
>
>I don't have any 'delay' argument in my lircrc file. I assumed that
>it was the 'repeat' argument (set to 4) against each keycode that was
>doing the filtering. If you're seeing 6 repeats you may need to up
>this value.
>
>
Default value of repeat is 0, which tells the remote to ignore repeated
keypresses ( http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html#lircrc_format ).
So, it's probably more appropriate to use a repeat of 0 for all but a
few keys (i.e. volume is the only one (two) I have set to other than 0
repeat).
Mike
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