[Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#790969: lircd stopped recognizing codes

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 09:26:57 UTC 2015


Contrary to all other lirc bugs, updating to latest upstream is most
likely not the silver bullet here.

My first thought is that this is a hardware problem. Things like
fluorescent light, bad batteries or simply something else broken in the
old remote. That irrecord doesn't work clearly indicates that the input
is broken.

The only thing between lircd and the remote is the kernel and the
hardware. I wouldn't rule out the kernel completely, but I'd check the
hardware first: If possible, try it against some other device, check
batteries, check for fluorescent light, change the distance...

To accept this as a lircd bug you would have to try another remote as
well. If it fails for two remotes there might be a bug. But as it
stands, I doubt it. All symptoms are as expected if the remote is broken.


Cheers!

--alec



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