LIRC Remote Button Presses Repeat Until Process is Killed

Plex Players Desktop Players
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Hi folks :slight_smile:

I had a similar issue with PLEX Media Player which was related to missing “UP” presses after a “DOWN” press. I could fix this by using lircd-uinput and the release_suffix=_LIRCUP option but this does not seem to be working.

LIRC is working fine with KODI and my own applications. Is there a new suffix I need to use?

I tried in vain with :1 and :2 as the suffix. I fully expected that to fail but I tried it anyway.

Currently, I am using the LIRC devinput driver but I also have a configuration for the default driver. I have an MCEUSB remote.

Jul 06, 2022 15:37:55.788 [HASH] INFO - Starting Plex HTPC version: 1.20.1.3105-ac120bc6
Jul 06, 2022 15:37:55.788 [HASH] INFO - Running on: Ubuntu Core 20 [5.18.9-200.fc36.x86_64] x86_64
Jul 06, 2022 15:37:55.788 [HASH] INFO - Happy Plexing!

Jul 06, 2022 15:38:01.258 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] [AppSplash] Destroying splash screen.
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:02.889 [sorry_buddy] INFO - LIRC Got Key : KEY_OK, repeat count: 0, from remote devinput-32
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:02.889 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - [InputManager] Input received: source: LIRC keycode: KEY_OK:0
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:02.889 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - [InputManager] Emit input action: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:02.889 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputManager] [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.523 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.523 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.581 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.581 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.641 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.641 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.701 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.701 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.704 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:03:703 [defender:redacted] INFO [UserManager] Switching to user: defender
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.761 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.761 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.762 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:03:761 [defender:redacted] DEBUG Blocked key undefined
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.821 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.821 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.823 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:03:822 [defender:redacted] DEBUG Blocked key undefined
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.858 [sorry_buddy] ERROR - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:03:858 [defender:redacted] WARN Failed to switch user: [UserManager] Could not switch with given pin code to user defender
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.881 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.881 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.945 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:03.945 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.005 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.005 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.065 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.065 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.067 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:066 [defender:redacted] INFO [UserManager] Switching to user: defender
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.129 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.129 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.131 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:130 [defender:redacted] DEBUG Blocked key undefined
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.189 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.189 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.190 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:190 [defender:redacted] DEBUG Blocked key undefined
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.206 [sorry_buddy] ERROR - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:205 [defender:redacted] WARN Failed to switch user: [UserManager] Could not switch with given pin code to user defender
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.249 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.249 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.309 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.309 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.369 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.369 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.433 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.433 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.435 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:434 [defender:redacted] INFO [UserManager] Switching to user: defender
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.493 [sorry_buddy] DEBUG - Emit input action (autorepeat): ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.493 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [InputConnector] Sending actions to UI: ["enter"]
Jul 06, 2022 15:38:04.495 [sorry_buddy] INFO - [Web] 06/03/2022 15:38:04:494 [defender:redacted] DEBUG Blocked key undefined
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_LIRCUP is the expected suffix. Likely you don’t have release set to true.

Use nc -U /run/lirc/lircd to see the commands on the socket. Make sure the _LIRCUP is being sent.

These are thread IDs. Mangling useful information in logs like this renders them useless.

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I apologize. I value my privacy and security. I did not know if your logs were sanitized or not and I like to be cautious. Frequently, logs contain personal information.

Trying to sanitize my logs that are posted in a public forum is not useless to me. :slight_smile:

I had this issue a long time and had to patch the PMP code to fix it previously. In later versions of lirc, --release is deprecated in the lircd executable and the “work” is shifted to lircd-uinput. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the release events are sent to /dev/uinput and not to the lircd socket.

I am a bit out of my depth here, but I put in a lot of hours trying to fix this for PMP with LIRC and wound up breaking every other LIRC program that failed to work afterword. That’s why I did that quick fix here:

Removing that search for the UP event fixed it for me cleanly and completely and I never had an issue with repeating button presses / etc.

Your team liked your code the way it is, and that is fine! Currently, I don’t have a way to take a wrench to your code locally.

So I found my old FLIRC device, hacked a way to turn the FLIRC usb port on and off from my dashboard code, and now things are working. The new Plex HTPC app seems very good so far.

EDIT: I had the wrong github issue. My issue is number 326.

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