IR Remote not working with 05-2 update

jmkinny · 5 July 2017 10:40

Sorry. I was sleeping…

#	DirecTV code 2

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end remote

sniferx1 · 5 July 2017 10:43

@sam_nazarko I can test and report as well. Any remote improvement is a bonus for me…

sam_nazarko · 5 July 2017 13:33

Okay. I’ll see what I can come up with. Stay tuned.

jmkinny · 9 July 2017 16:21

I loaded 06-1 again. Same response. I stopped mediacenter.service and eventlircd.service to run irrecord and mode2. I created a new conf file using irrecord. It was reasonably close to the original. I then ran mode2 and noticed a fair bit of variation from one key press to another press of the same key, so I am guessing that the tolerance is quite large. While running irrecord or mode2, the response is instantaneous upon the first key press. Nothing is ignored. I then started eventlircd.service again and ran irw. I have to press a key twice to get a response. If I press the button times, I get two responses. So, only the first press is ignored. I believe that my problem has nothing to do with my lirc.conf files.

To recap my version history:
04-1 is what I am running now and works OK.
05-1 - I don’t know if I ever ran with this version. If I did, it must have worked OK as I didn’t notice a problem until 05-2.
05-2 - First noticed the problem.
05-2 with experimental builds as of 6/18 - This worked.
05-3 - This worked for me when updated from the version above. I never tried loading this as a clean install. Maybe it worked for that reason.
06-1 - Does not work for me.

You don’t have 05-1 and 05-3 in the download area for me to try a clean install. Can you put them there??

To re-iterate, my problem is only with the built-in IR receiver. If I plug a USB receiver in, it works OK. The RF remote works OK.

sam_nazarko · 10 July 2017 22:49

Hi,

There aren’t any releases of 2017.05-1 and 2017.05-3 because of security changes.

Thanks, that’s pretty useful feedback. While the only changes have been in the kernel, it sounds like we are getting to the uinput layer fine, but eventlircd’s repeat filter is actually causing the issue.

Assuming you know your way around the command line:

Edit /lib/systemd/system/eventlircd.service

Change:

ExecStart = /usr/sbin/eventlircd --evmap=/etc/eventlircd.d --socket=/var/run/lirc/lircd --repeat-filter --release=_UP -f

to

ExecStart = /usr/sbin/eventlircd --evmap=/etc/eventlircd.d --socket=/var/run/lirc/lircd --release=_UP -f

And reboot. If it improves things; then I suspect the issue is caused by us storing edges without filtering. This is done for two reasons:

Better performance under load due to less processing; this means events aren’t dropped
Without this change, RC5 doesn’t work at all. I suspect we will have to come up with some other workaround if this is the case.

Sam

jmkinny · 10 July 2017 23:54

I probably should have told you that I tried that already. It had no effect. I think that is actually for distinguishing between a button held down too long for a single press and a button held down to get repeats. That’s not my problem. My problem is that it is ignoring the first press.

Something else that was unexpected that I probably should have mentioned. When I ran irrecord, the first step of learning the remote would produce dots on the screen as soon as I touched a button. However, when it came to programming the keys, a single press would result in an error. I had to press and hold the button into repeats in order for it to register. The difference between the two is the initial pulse. For a single button press, the pulse is 6020 or so, but the initial pulse during a repeat sequence is 3062 or so. I should probably try this with a USB receiver to see if it is any different.

sam_nazarko · 10 July 2017 23:59

Okay – thanks for clarifying.

It will be a bug in the IR driver. Will hack around it. May be the case that for RC5 remotes (OSMC original IR remote); we have to add a sysfs parameter that makes the driver behave a little differently.

Thank you for the info.

I’ll let you know when I’ve got something to test and any further questions. Then we can put IR to bed.

Sam

jmkinny · 11 July 2017 02:11

I don’t get why it is only affecting the built-in receiver (GPIO?). The USB receiver works just fine.

sam_nazarko · 11 July 2017 02:29

There’s a different driver for this (meson-ir), which is a GPIO driven receiver.

Sam

sam_nazarko · 31 July 2017 05:07

Hi

Hopefully the issue is now addressed

I’d appreciate it if you could test this and provide feedback before we release this as an update to other users. To test this update:

Login via the command line
Edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following line: deb http://apt.osmc.tv jessie-devel main
Run the following commands to update: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && reboot
Your system should have have received the update.

Please see if the issue is resolved.

I also recommend you edit /etc/apt/sources.list again and remove the line that you added after updating. This will return you to the normal update channel.

Smurphy · 31 July 2017 13:45

As usual. No problem detected here, even with latest updates etc. all fine (I have to know it, I have 4 Girls at home on holidays… If the Remote wouldn’t work, it would be hell on earth for me ) …

EDIT: I seems I am a little late - was on holidays, so late reply. But the harmony remote here is working fine.

jmkinny · 1 August 2017 00:12

Well, no success for now. I didn’t remove the normal source (deb http://apt.osmc.tv jessie main). Was I supposed to?

Anyway, when I reboot, it pops up the Please Wait screen and gets stuck there. No network communications. At first I thought that it might be because I was “upgrading” from 04-1. So, I tried loading 06-1 and then upgrade to the test s/w. Same response. Please provide guidance, but be advised that I won’t be able to test anything until Friday. I have already angered my S.O. with today’s testing.

sam_nazarko · 1 August 2017 00:14

You will likely need to reinstall. There’s a new kernel with a fix for the Please Wait being compiled. Once this is done, I will release the July update. Hopefully the remote issue will be fixed but it’s hard to say whether this is the case as @Smurphy has been unable to reproduce the problem at all (and neither have our team)

Sam

jmkinny · 1 August 2017 00:31

OK. So you are saying wait for the July update, load that, and hope for the best.

sam_nazarko · 1 August 2017 01:29

The kernel has been rebuilt now so is available for testing. It’s the kernel that will likely end up in the July release.

So you can try updating now. Feedback would be appreciated; as I need someone to confirm whether it’s working or not.

jmkinny · 4 August 2017 12:48

Sam,

I have updated my Vero4k to the 07-1 version and my DirecTV RC6 remote is still working. Thank you.

sam_nazarko · 4 August 2017 13:57

Thanks for confirming this.

sam_nazarko · 10 August 2017 16:03

Did you select the 360 remote from My OSMC -> Remotes?

Sam

swrobel · 10 August 2017 16:34

That was the issue, hence I deleted my post. I guess that doesn’t get restored along with the backup of settings.