[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Remote Went Crazy
Jean-Yves Avenard
jyavenard at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 04:20:54 UTC 2008
Hi
2008/8/25 Doug Haber <doug at fawnanddoug.com>:
> The Mac Mini remote seems to work well, however, whenever I use another
> remote (e.g. the TV remote or the Receiver remote), lirc picks up that
> signal and repeats whatever button was last pressed on the Mac Mini remote.
> For example, if I hit play on the Mac Mini remote, Myth will start to play
> my show. If I then hold volume up on my receiver remote, the receiver will
> raise the volume but Myth will also pause then play then pause then play,
I've also noticed that changing the volume on my amplifier (which uses
Philipps IR code) would sometime confuse the mac mini which would also
act as if I had sent a signal using the Apple remote.
Same thing when using my Sony remote ; if I keep a button pressed to
change the volume ; the mini picks it up from time to time.
> Is there any way to get lirc to ignore these signals that don't come from
> the Mac Mini remote?
probably not, but you can help the situation.
You can change the codes sent by the Apple remote by pressing Play and
Menu for 10s
I have done so a few times to record with my Harmony remote 28
different IR signals, so I can do everything I need (record, menu
etc...)
My lircd.conf looks like this:
begin remote
name Apple_A1156
bits 16
eps 30
aeps 100
one 0 0
zero 0 0
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0x87EE
gap 211984
min_repeat 119
begin codes
PLUS 0xA00B
MINUS 0xA00D
PLAY 0xA004
FORWARD 0xA007
REWIND 0xA008
MENU 0xA002
PLUS2 0x8E0B
MINUS2 0x8E0D
PLAY2 0x8E04
FORWARD2 0x8E07
REWIND2 0x8E08
MENU2 0x8E02
PLUS3 0x900B
MINUS3 0x900D
PLAY3 0x9004
FORWARD3 0x9007
REWIND3 0x9008
MENU3 0x9002
PLUS4 0x930B
MINUS4 0x930D
PLAY4 0x9304
FORWARD4 0x9307
REWIND4 0x9308
MENU4 0x9302
PLUS5 0x960B
MINUS5 0x960D
PLAY5 0x9604
FORWARD5 0x9607
REWIND5 0x9608
MENU5 0x9602
end codes
end remote
The Apple remote send code like 0x87EExxyy
As you can see, each time you press Menu and Play together it will
increment xx by 1.
Then it always uses the same hex code for the buttons.
I have noticed sometimes that the code for PLUS would change from xx0B
to xx0A ; not sure precisely when this happens, however when it does
the mac mini has more trouble recognising the IR signal and it's less
reliable.
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