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No thanks, it's not the repeater it's the TV....apparently it's not an uncommon problem for LCD TVs to spit a bunch of IR interference when they're first turned on....just googling for it spits a ton of hits of people having the exact same problem as me with specific components that don't handle IR noise well. In fact it seems I might be lucky in that mine stops after a minute or so, many people say theirs lasts for 30 or 45 minutes after turning their TV on. I'd expect any repeater will likely have the same behavior. I'm playing with mechanisms to dull the noise from the TV (lenses, masking tape, etc) so that the flirc can cope, but I dunno it's not looking super promising. I'm starting to think my only realistic options are to get a different TV or replace the flirc, and the latter is much cheaper than the former....which sucks cuz I really do like the flirc, it's an awesome little gadget. Do you think there's any chance in the future that the flirc could be made to handle IR noise a little better? Is that a firmware thing or a hardware thing?

Hmmm well....upon further testing the noise actually does not stop after it "warms up" - the flirc just seems to get better at handling it...and even more confusing I've determined that the noise itself is coming from the TV, not the windows...so when it's sitting idle it's not even seeing noise (the tv is off) so I have no idea why it would get worse the longer it sits. My repeater does not appear to have any adjustable sensitivity, however putting masking tape over the receiver does seem to help a lot - kills the noise and real commands still get through

Thanks for the debug log info, that is hugely useful. As best I can figure out, I think my repeater must have some sort of dynamic sensitivity where it'll adjust its sensitivity based on the strength of the incoming light it detects. Unfortunately this seems to mean that it just sends more and more noise the longer it sits idle - it looks like it's picking up trace amounts of IR light from the windows and amplifying that and blasting it to the devices. It doesn't matter where I put the transmitter in relation to the flirc as it seems the noise is being amplified just as any proper signal would be, so if the flirc can see a proper signal, then it is also receiving the noise...and the flirc simply does not appear to be as good at handling the noise as all the other devices. Once I start sending actual IR commands my repeater takes a little bit to tune its 'dynamic sensitivity' back down to a sane level, which stops the noise and then the flirc starts to respond properly. This is my current theory...I'm not sure where this leaves me, assuming it's correct I guess I have a few options: See if my repeater's sensitivity can be manually adjusted/controlled in some way Run the flirc on a big long USB extension and mount it beside my repeater's receiver Replace the repeater Replace the flirc Hope/pray for a firmware update that handles noise a little better :) Not super crazy about any of them. I wonder if putting something like this (https://www.amazon.com/LightDims-Original-Strength-Electronics-Appliances/dp/B009WSJNCW) over the repeater's receiver would eliminate enough of the noise that the flirc could cope, without actually hindering my ability to control the system...might be worth a try

ok, I'll play with that a bit more and see if I can find a setup that works better. Would anything be showing up in the debug log for the leaked light? I don't see anything when I'm not pressing buttons....I guess is there any way I can "check" if the flirc is seeing this leaked light? (is there anything specific in the debug output that indicates that?). Having a 3-4 hour testing cycle is a little painful :) At any rate, thanks so much for your help on this, your feedback and advice (and ability to release new software versions so responsively) has been quite awesome and unexpected :). Thanks!

Well, with the transmitter about a foot away from the flirc it's maybe a *little* better....maybe? I only waited ~3 hours so even with it taped right on the receiver it wouldn't get too bad in just 3 hours. This time it responded in maybe 3 or 4 seconds, but then continued to miss key presses for the next 20 secs or so.....attached the log... irdebug3.log

Yeah I'll try it...will have to wait a few hours to see if it helps tho

Hmm nope, just taking the emitter off it doesn't work at all...it's not seeing any light

Is the "too many edges" thing a normal(ish) thing to see? Curious that I see that even without the repeater.... I wonder if the emitter is over-powering the receiver....just reading a bit about IR repeaters apparently that is a thing that can happen when the receiver is quite sensitive...

Ok, I wrapped it up *really* good (https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d0wnfw56jvomfj/File 2017-08-24%2C 5 51 24 PM.jpeg?dl=0) and it has made no difference. Maybe the signal is bouncing around *inside* the tape/flirc casing? I dunno I'm so confused. It's really weird that it sorts itself out after a minute or so and then it works great. I wonder if I had a cron job that just periodically did a send_ir_raw if that would prevent it from getting into that state...it seems like the longer it sits idle the worse it gets...

it is one of these: https://www.amazon.ca/IR-Repeater-System-Hidden-Control/dp/B0016PM63W it's not really in a cabinet, it's just in/under an open shelving unit...When I initially did the setup I was having reflection issues with all the devices so I actually tape the emitters directly to the IR receivers and cover up the rest of the IR receiver with electrical tape so I don't get external reflections, and that has worked great. Maybe the flirc is really sensitive and is picking up signals through the tape?...maybe I just need to add a couple more layers. I can try that tonight....altho if that was the problem I would expect it to always have that problem, not just for the first minute...

ooooh, a little embarrassing I don't know how I didn't think of this before, but I am using an IR repeater. I've been using it for years for literally all my devices and I've never had a problem....however I just tried the flirc without it and it seems to work fine without it. (although the "too many edges" thing is still there, see attached). Sorry I don't know how it didn't occur to me to check the IR repeater, your USB extension comment just made me think of it. Would it be possible to make it work through the repeater though? My entire setup runs through this repeater, and over the years I've used this same repeater for many many devices (like probably 30-40) and it's always worked flawlessly...kinda weird the the flirc is the only device that doesn't seem to like it. I mean the flirc works perfectly with it too, other than the first minute or so where it seems to be recovering from some sort of backlog or lag or something. irdebug_norepeater.log

attached irdebug log. This is a single button press - I held the 'up' arrow until kodi responded (took ~10 secs) irdebug.log

awesome, thanks! Heheh, it overflowed my scrollback buffer pretty quick....I'll reset and try again and have you a log in a few hours

Cool, thanks!

Does anyone know is there any way to run the ir debugger in openelec? Also, is anyone here running the 1st or 2nd gen flirc on openelec on a pi? If the 1st gen works better I may just return this one and get a 1st gen instead....wife+kids are quite impatient

FYI I'll be out of town for the next couple days so I prolly won't be terribly responsive on here...but I am still very interested in getting this resolved. Do you suspect this is a new issue introduced with the 2nd gen model? Or something specific to rpi/openelec/harmony? I read that many people run with this configuration and are very happy with it, so I'm not sure what's different about my setup...

The dmesg is pasted below, is there any way to do the ir debug from the CLI? I don't have X on this machine and I don't think it's realistically possible to get it up and running on openelec... 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[ 1.952010] Freeing unused kernel memory: 2048K (80a00000 - 80c00000) [ 1.957830] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable [ 1.960161] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0007 [ 1.960567] mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SD8GB 7.47 GiB [ 1.963096] mmcblk0: p1 p2 [ 1.971775] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (2 bytes) [ 1.973315] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes) [ 1.974837] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (3 bytes) [ 1.977578] mmc1: queuing unknown CIS tuple 0x80 (7 bytes) [ 2.008694] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00021501 [ 2.020106] random: fast init done [ 2.063426] mmc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 [ 2.181946] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using dwc_otg [ 2.182029] Indeed it is in host mode hprt0 = 00001101 [ 2.372081] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=9514 [ 2.372089] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 2.372508] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found [ 2.372554] hub 1-1:1.0: 5 ports detected [ 2.651937] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using dwc_otg [ 2.742066] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0424, idProduct=ec00 [ 2.742072] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 2.744434] smsc95xx v1.0.5 [ 2.793921] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:2e:73:7c [ 2.998604] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using dwc_otg [ 3.093280] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=20a0, idProduct=0006 [ 3.093285] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 3.093291] usb 1-1.2: Product: flirc [ 3.093295] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: flirc.tv [ 3.096647] hid-generic 0003:20A0:0006.0001: hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [flirc.tv flirc] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0 [ 3.102516] input: flirc.tv flirc as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:20A0:0006.0002/input/input0 [ 3.158839] hid-generic 0003:20A0:0006.0002: input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.01 Keyboard [flirc.tv flirc] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input1 [ 4.268630] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities [ 4.269407] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities [ 4.305924] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 4.721105] systemd[1]: System time before build time, advancing clock. [ 4.741884] systemd[1]: systemd 233 running in system mode. (-PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR -SMACK -SYSVINIT -UTMP -LIBCRYPTSETUP -GCRYPT -GNUTLS -ACL -XZ -LZ4 -SECCOMP +BLKID -ELFUTILS -KMOD -IDN default-hierarchy=hybrid) [ 4.742264] systemd[1]: Detected architecture arm. [ 4.742376] systemd[1]: Running with unpopulated /etc. [ 4.742459] systemd[1]: Set hostname to <OpenELEC>. [ 4.744233] systemd[1]: Initializing machine ID from random generator. [ 4.837862] systemd[1]: Populated /etc with preset unit settings. [ 4.893035] systemd[1]: Created slice User and Session Slice. [ 4.893419] systemd[1]: Listening on RPCbind Server Activation Socket. [ 4.893763] systemd[1]: Created slice System Slice. [ 4.895318] systemd[1]: Mounting Variable Directory... [ 5.137981] fuse init (API version 7.26) [ 5.144634] systemd-journald[192]: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1 [ 5.615068] random: crng init done [ 6.247947] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x30 [ 6.325724] gpiomem-bcm2835 3f200000.gpiomem: Initialised: Registers at 0x3f200000 [ 6.806221] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac [ 7.017503] uart-pl011 3f201000.serial: no DMA platform data [ 7.052168] brcmfmac: Firmware version = wl0: Aug 29 2016 20:48:16 version 7.45.41.26 (r640327) FWID 01-4527cfab [ 7.639956] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup [ 7.666532] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 [ 7.777676] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [ 7.777694] brcmfmac: power management disabled [ 9.235114] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1 [ 11.969904] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 11.969967] NET: Registered protocol family 31 [ 11.969970] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 11.969983] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 11.969989] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 11.970008] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 11.985965] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3 [ 11.985977] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered [ 11.985983] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCSP registered [ 11.985987] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol LL registered [ 11.985993] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol ATH3K registered [ 11.985999] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered [ 11.986096] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Intel registered [ 11.986160] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered [ 11.986163] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol QCA registered [ 11.986166] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol AG6XX registered [ 11.986168] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Marvell registered

Yup, same log after sitting 5+ hours and being totally unresponsive

well, I let it sit for a couple hours, and this time wasn't as bad as sometimes (only took maybe 20 secs or so to become fully functional)...but here's the log from this one. I'll let it sit for several more hours and then see if the log looks any different. TV:~/flirc-2.5.6 # ./flirc_util device_log <1>malloc_addblock(49): Heap Block: 0x20001708 - 0x20002FFF (6k) <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges <3>ir_finished(55): too many edges TV:~/flirc-2.5.6 # ./flirc_util settings flirc_util version v2.5.6 [v2.5.6] Firmware: v4.1.5 [0x14C40FA3] Settings: sleep detection: NA noise canceler: NA inter-key delay: NA seq. modifiers: NA variant: Flirc builtin profiles: NA Memory Info: NA [D] lib/libcmds/cmds.c run_cmd(275): could not find command 'sku' Recorded Keys: Index hash IK ID key ----- -------- --- -- --- TV:~/flirc-2.5.6 #

Anyone find an easyish way to get this working? Looks like the latest versions are dependent on external libs, which are not super straight-forward to get on openelec... TV:~/2.5.6 # ./flirc_util ./flirc_util: error while loading shared libraries: libhidapi-hidraw.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I'm using the Flirc/Kodi profile on the harmony. I'll try to get flirc_util up and running, haven't had much luck yet but I'll get 'er.

2nd generation...just barely got it, updated firmware to latest (as of a week ago or so), using it with a harmony one.

I have my flirc hooked up to a raspberry pi 3 media center (openelec)...and when it's working it works great. However I have an issue where after the pi has been idle for a couple hours, the flirc will be totally unresponsive for 10 or 15 seconds...then it will start responding sporadically, and then over the next 45 secs or so it will become more and more responsive until it is working properly. The pi does not go to sleep, it is just idle...does the flirc itself go to sleep and if so is there a way to disable that?