Debian Bug report logs - #790969
lircd stopped recognizing codes

Package: lirc
Version: 0.9.0~pre1-1.2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I am using a home-brew serial receiver in conjunction with an All In One 
URC 7730 remote control in DVD mode with preset 0695 for our HTPC. This 
setup has served me well for almost 10 years, but since a couple of 
weeks or so (unfortunately, I can't figure out since how long exactly), 
lircd obviously has trouble recognizing the keys pressed on the remote.

mode2 still shows nice pulses and spaces, and so does xmode2, but irw 
rarely ever outputs a recognized key press. (The system journal, 
however, shows frequent "Ignoring spike" messages. Don't recall if I've 
had those before, though.)

I also tried to re-create the lircd.conf file using irrecord, but this 
failed for various reasons:
- A lircd.conf created when forcing irrecord into raw mode doesn't lead 
to any recognized key presses.
- When not in raw mode, irrecord detects the remote to use either the 
RC-5 or RC-6 protocol. In the former case, each attemt to record a key 
press results in a "Something went wrong" message, while in the latter 
case irrecord exits complaining about not having detected a toggle bit mask.

Frankly, I don't know for sure if this is a lirc problem since according 
to the change log there were no changes in the lirc package since 
January. To me it seems more likely that the trouble was introduces by 
some other package (possibly used by lircd) when I did a system upgrade 
(which I usually do about once a month). But since I don't have a clue 
which package this might be, I am reporting this to the lirc bug tracker.

Best regards --

    Torsten

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lirc depends on:
ii  libasound2      1.0.29-1
ii  libc6           2.19-18
ii  libftdi1        0.20-2
ii  liblircclient0  0.9.0~pre1-1.2
ii  libusb-0.1-4    2:0.1.12-25
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian13+nmu1

lirc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lirc suggests:
pn  ir-keytable  <none>
ii  lirc-x       0.9.0~pre1-1.2
ii  setserial    2.17-48

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lirc/hardware.conf changed:
LIRCD_ARGS=""
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER=""
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES="lirc_serial"
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""

/etc/lirc/lircd.conf changed:
begin remote
  name  Aiwa0695
  bits           16
  flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
  eps            30
  aeps          100
  header       9002  4379
  one           622  1607
  zero          622   491
  ptrail        622
  pre_data_bits   16
  pre_data       0x8E71
  gap          107584
  toggle_bit_mask 0x0
      begin codes
          power                    0x52AD
          1                        0x827D
          2                        0x42BD
          3                        0xC23D
          4                        0x22DD
          5                        0xA25D
          6                        0x629D
          7                        0xE21D
          8                        0x12ED
          9                        0x926D
          0                        0x02FD
          ch+                      0x26D9
          ch-                      0xA659
          mute                     0x56A9
          vol+                     0xF609
          vol-                     0x0EF1
          left                     0x1AE5
          right                    0x9A65
          up                       0x6A95
          down                     0xEA15
          ok                       0x5AA5
          menu                     0xAA55
          exit                     0x2AD5
          aspect                   0x9669
          rew                      0xC639
          pause                    0x16E9
          play                     0x06F9
          ffw                      0x46B9
          red                      0x728D
          green                    0x8679
          yellow                   0x817E
          blue                     0x0AF5
      end codes
end remote

-- no debconf information

Debian Bug report logs - #790969 lircd stopped recognizing codes

Debian Bug report logs - #790969
lircd stopped recognizing codes