Duplicate remote keypresses (with RC6)

[butlerat]

Continuing the discussion from Today's update killed my WMC remote:

@DBMandrake

There seem to be duplicate events being sent to eventlircd.

You can see an additional KEY_RIGHT being sent after KEY_RIGHT_UP. Here is what I see when I do the same test. (On an OSMC remote on a Vero, but same principles apply)

osmc@vero:~$ irw
6a 0 KEY_RIGHT linux-input-layer
6a 1 KEY_RIGHT linux-input-layer
6a 2 KEY_RIGHT linux-input-layer
6a 0 KEY_RIGHT_UP linux-input-layer
69 0 KEY_LEFT linux-input-layer
69 1 KEY_LEFT linux-input-layer
69 2 KEY_LEFT linux-input-layer
69 0 KEY_LEFT_UP linux-input-layer

Notice there is only one key up event for both button presses. Can you try the following for me. Install a package called ir-keytable:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ir-keytable

Then run the following command:

sudo ir-keytable

And post the output of this command here so we can see it. Then try running:

sudo ir-keytable -p lirc

Let us know if this eliminates the duplicate button presses. (It will only take effect until a reboot)

Had to post to a new topic since the old one was closed. For everyone having this issue, DBMandrake’s solution above does work but just needs to be added to /etc/rc.local so it runs on startup otherwise the fix is lost after a reboot.

Here is my /etc/rc.local

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
#

# Sleep to allow other services to run first
sleep 20

# Set network to 100M as Vero doesn't work with 1000M
ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg on

# Switch remote settings to LIRC only to prevent duplicate keypresses
ir-keytable -p lirc

exit 0

To someone on the OSMC team - is this something that can be fixed in a future update so this doesn’t have to be done manually? (The same for setting the network speed back to 100M on the Vero - see Vero network speed - choppy playback)

[DBMandrake]

Thanks.

I’ve made a note of the RC6 issue on our bug tracker so it should get fixed at some point in a future update.