MCE Remote not working after December Update

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After the December update, my Harmony Remote stopped working.

I have the MCE USB IR Receiver. It’s model is “Microsoft 1039”, and is the same one I’ve used for many years with the Pi/Raspbmc/OSMC.

When I reboot the Pi, it’s not even loading the USB IR receiver:

osmc@osmc:~$ irw /var/run/lirc/lircd-lirc0
connect: No such file or directory
osmc@osmc:~$ ls /var/run/lirc/
lircd
osmc@osmc:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
8021q 22870 0
garp 7558 1 8021q
stp 2430 1 garp
llc 6031 2 garp,stp
nf_nat 19472 0
nf_conntrack 110806 1 nf_nat
iptable_mangle 1934 0
iptable_filter 2212 0
ip_tables 13649 2 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables 23831 3 iptable_mangle,ip_tables,iptable_filter
ipv6 456416 48
osmc@osmc:~$

and lsusb yields:

osmc@osmc:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0471:0815 Philips (or NXP) eHome Infrared Receiver
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514 Fast Ethernet Adapter
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMC9514 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

So I force load mceusb:

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo modprobe mceusb
osmc@osmc:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ir_lirc_codec 5647 0
ir_rc6_decoder 3447 0
lirc_dev 10631 1 ir_lirc_codec
rc_rc6_mce 1560 0
mceusb 12121 0
rc_core 26883 6 mceusb,ir_rc6_decoder,rc_rc6_mce,ir_lirc_codec,lirc_dev
8021q 22870 0
garp 7558 1 8021q
stp 2430 1 garp
llc 6031 2 garp,stp
nf_nat 19472 0
nf_conntrack 110806 1 nf_nat
iptable_mangle 1934 0
iptable_filter 2212 0
ip_tables 13649 2 iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
x_tables 23831 3 iptable_mangle,ip_tables,iptable_filter

and now when I run irw, I’m getting repeats:

osmc@osmc:~$ irw /var/run/lirc/lircd-lirc0
000000037ff07bdf 00 KEY_LEFT mceusb
000000037ff07bdf 01 KEY_LEFT mceusb
000000037ff07bde 00 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
000000037ff07bde 01 KEY_RIGHT mceusb
000000037ff07be1 00 KEY_UP mceusb
000000037ff07be1 01 KEY_UP mceusb
000000037ff07be1 02 KEY_UP mceusb
000000037ff07be0 00 KEY_DOWN mceusb
000000037ff07be0 01 KEY_DOWN mceusb

I think I’ve messed around with the lircd.conf files so much that I’ve confused myself :frowning: Tried many of the proposed solutions suggested in the forms like picking individual remotes, swapping USB ports.

So my question is:

  1. How can get mceusb to automatically load and not force it by modprobe?
  2. How can I get rid of the repeats?

Full Logs are here: https://paste.osmc.tv/owupapayil

Thanks,

Mandr

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I stopped using the IR receiver and just changed my Harmony remote to use the TV remote through the CEC commands.

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Hello
I have the same issue but your solution is not a global solution, it’s juste a workaround for you !

Have you any command to check and debug lirc remote.
A clean install of osmc work with my configuration so that’s not an hardware problem.
How to check lirc work ?

Thank’s

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Same remote?

Try enabling the RC6 decoder in My OSMC.

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I have already try this but not working
I don’t know how I start my investigation.

I think there is a command like irw that show on ssh the command but i can’t remember the correct commant.
The lirc log see nothing

The IR worked perfectly before update

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You have to stop LIRC for this to work first.

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Nothing changed in this update, re IR. So if you updated from November, it’s unlikely to be an issue with OSMC.

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I have update from August

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sudo systemctl stop lircd_helper@lirc0
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo systemctl start lircd_helper@lirc0
Job for lircd_helper@lirc0.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See “systemctl status lircd_helper@lirc0.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
osmc@osmc:~$ journalctl -xe
…
– Unit lircd_helper@lirc0.service has begun starting up.
Feb 03 15:30:30 osmc sh[1375]: /bin/sh: 1: /var/run/lirc/lircd-lirc0.sh: not found
Feb 03 15:30:30 osmc systemd[1]: lircd_helper@lirc0.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=127
Feb 03 15:30:30 osmc systemd[1]: Failed to start lircd remote support.
– Subject: Unit lircd_helper@lirc0.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: Debian -- User Support

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irw /var/run/lirc/lircd-lirc0
connect: No such file or directory

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Hi,

Sounds like you may missing packages. Try checking for updates again, if that doesn’t fix; please provide logs.

Thanks Tom.

12

update say nothing to update
I will try to restore backup and re-update with a new SD Card

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I have restore my backup and restart update
download update ok but error on package : it’s say : report error in forum
So that’s the same error I will have with other sd Card

what happend ?
what log do you want ?

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grab-logs -a

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https://paste.osmc.tv/rolozipawa
it’s the August version that’s update won’t start

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This log indicates no attempt to update since September. Are you only trying to update from MyOSMC? Have you tried running

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?

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I have made backup from August
Yesterday, i have try to update with myosmc with this result so i have try sudo apt-get… and i have passed osmc to december version but IR don’t work.

I can test all of you want to start lirc again

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I will restart update again with apt-get and so on

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>  Setting up rbp2-image-4.9.29-10-osmc (10) ...
> 
>  Hmm. There is a symbolic link /lib/modules/4.9.29-10-osmc/build
>  However, I can not read it: No such file or directory
>  Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/4.9.29-10-osmc/build
> 
> 
>  Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/4.9.29-10-osmc/source
>  However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory
>  Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/4.9.29-10-osmc/source

Progress 91% mysql update is slow…

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Thanks for the reminder. That’s just a warning which I’ve now removed.