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dsmiley at mac

Nov 21, 2009, 1:46 PM

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Why does mythtv responds to lirc when in the background?

Hello everyone. I have the latest 9.10 based mythbuntu based setup with an lirc configuration copied from my previous setup which was based on the http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ (FC6)
There are a couple problems I have with my setup:

1. mythfrontend doesn't respond to my remote control for the first two minutes or so from having launched it. The keyboard works. This isn't a big deal but is odd; it wasn't like this on my former setup. When I look in mythfrontend.log I see that mythtv successfully initializes LIRC right away on startup.

2. I have recently been having fun with Boxee to get content that I don't get on cable. However if mythfrontend is still running (in the background of course), it responds to all of my remote control presses. How shall I go about troubleshooting/fixing this problem?

~ David Smiley
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mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1

Nov 23, 2009, 7:05 AM

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Re: Why does mythtv responds to lirc when in the background? [In reply to]

At 4:46 PM -0500 11/21/09, David Smiley wrote:
>1. mythfrontend doesn't respond to my remote control for the first
>two minutes or so from having launched it.

Are you sure this isn't due to you having just turned on your LCD TV?
This sounds very similar to what I see when my remote's batteries are
a little bit weak: the flickering of the TV's backlight for the first
two minutes or so after being turned on overpowers the IR signal from
the remote. After that time, the backlight settles down and the
remote works normally.
--
Dan Wilga "Ook."
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Nov 23, 2009, 7:37 AM

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Re: Why does mythtv responds to lirc when in the background? [In reply to]

On 11/23/2009 10:05 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 4:46 PM -0500 11/21/09, David Smiley wrote:
>> 1. mythfrontend doesn't respond to my remote control for the first
>> two minutes or so from having launched it.
>
> Are you sure this isn't due to you having just turned on your LCD TV?
> This sounds very similar to what I see when my remote's batteries are
> a little bit weak: the flickering of the TV's backlight for the first
> two minutes or so after being turned on overpowers the IR signal from
> the remote. After that time, the backlight settles down and the remote
> works normally.

Also, this will happen if you have media inserted into any "managed"
drive and have media monitoring enabled. Myth will spend some time
trying to read all information on the files on the drive each time you
start up so it can figure out which plugin to start to allow you to use
that media.

Solution: eject the removable media. (Applies to CD's, DVD's, SD cards,
Flash keys, ...)

Mike
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arizonamythtv at gmail

Nov 23, 2009, 10:39 AM

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Re: Why does mythtv responds to lirc when in the background? [In reply to]

2. I ended up writing a script that kills the FE when switching to
Boxee and when switching out of Boxee it restarts the FE.
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