phoner

This is consistently the issue now. What I need to do every time the flirc boots is to shadow the receiver, hit a single button on the remote inside the shadow, and then it works fine after.

ok I figured it out, there is an odd glitch here. The flirc will not work if the lights in the room are on while the flirc is first booting. What I needed to do was to shadow the flirc with my hand and then while shadowed from the rest of the room hit a few buttons on the remote, soon as I verify the flirc is working while shadowed from the room it will then continue to work unshadowed. It seems to me the flirc is becoming overwhelmed during first boot in a bright environment, as soon as it receives a few ir blasts from a remote it seems to then adjust something that allows it to tone out everything else and follow that one remote fine.

I've been using the usb flirc for a long time, but occasionally they stop working and then work sporadically. I'm using windows, just trying to get numbers into notepad. plug the usb in, it will work for 1 maybe two keystrokes then stop working. Unplug/plug back in a bunch of times then it will work again for a few minutes. Sometimes I'll get it working, then unplug/replug and nothing. Is there a way to get them to work reliably and from boot?

I found the apt-get unnecessary anyways. Got it to work by installing as many of the dependencies as I could, some of them weren't found but apparently they weren't critical. sudo Flirc ran the gui fine and it worked great.

on ubuntu 18.04 I receive this message, apt-get update Err:4 http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release 404 Not Found [IP: 45.56.95.166 80] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB] Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://apt.flirc.tv/arch/x64 binary/ Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

I had an issue getting all the dependencies but it didn't matter the executable gui still ran fine without them.