[mythtv-users] still having remote troubles with Fedora 14/Harmony

[John Welch]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> I just upgraded my FE/BE system from F13 to F14 (for various reasons).
> Everything is working pretty well now except the Harmony remote (which
> worked fine under F13). I have read several previous threads about
> similar problems and I have tried the fixes there, but I am obviously
> missing something because I am still having the same problem previously
> described: remote key presses are being received and acted on multiple
> times.
>
> I have a Streamzap receiver and a Harmony 700 remote. Both remotes have
> the "bouncing" problem, but it is worse on the Harmony. In both cases,
> if I am really quick with the button press, it will work properly. Just
> a hair too long and I get a bounce. The difference is that the Streamzap
> is a little more tolerant than the Harmony. I have to have REALLY short
> button presses on the Harmony to avoid multiple responses.
>
> What I have done:
>
> 1) echo lirc  > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
>
> (in rc.local)
>
> 2) used the troubleshoot section of the Harmony programming to set the
> "device responds too much to some commands" value to the lowest setting
> (zero)
>
> 3) On the Harmony, held down the Help button and set the Inter-device
> delay down to zero.
>
> 4) Added "repeat = 2"  to every key in my lircrc file.
>
> Changing the Harmony-related settings helped a little, but since the
> Streamzap is also much more sensitive than it was under F13, there has
> to be something else going on than just Harmony settings. Even with the
> Streamzap, the WAF is going down because it is a pain to use even the
> Streamzap now.
>
> Oh yeah: keyboard control works fine and I am running the latest F14
> kernel 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64
>
>
> Anything else I can try? The Harmony is pretty much useless for using
> with Myth right now because it is SO picky about the length of the
> button press.
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Greg
>
>
> _______________________________________________

Don't really have any answers or suggestions for you, but I can tell
you that I am one of people that previously posted on this issue and I
am still basically in the same boat as you are.  As far as I know
there is no fix for the current kernel.  So, I don't think you are
necessarily missing anything.  If you can possibly drop back two
kernel levels (2.6.35.9-64) I think you will find things will work
better as long as you have the 'echo' command in your rc.local.  My
understanding, which may or may not be correct, is that there is
another kernel in testing (Rawhide) that addresses this issue.  I'm
hoping this is the case and that the kernel gets released soon.

John