Bug 48761

Summary:	mceusb driver is buggy compared to lirc
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	illumilore (illumilore)
Component:	USB	Assignee:	Greg Kroah-Hartman (greg)
Status:	REOPENED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan, sean
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.5	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description illumilore 2012-10-14 07:17:33 UTC

xubuntu 12.10rc, x64 with a HA-IR01SV 'vista' mce remote

When using the infrared remote, operations are generally buggy compared to lirc. Multiple buttons do not work, and if you hold down a key, it's repetition is buggy (ie holding it down for one second will repeat way faster than it should and for longer, so if you are choosing a selection from a list you will end up at the bottom)

Comment 1 illumilore 2013-11-27 23:17:21 UTC

It still hasn't been fixed.

Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2013-11-27 23:23:11 UTC

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:17:21PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> It still hasn't been fixed.

Please send email to the developers of the driver, and
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org

Comment 3 Sean Young 2017-08-24 14:59:12 UTC

You describe two issues. One is repeat handling. Repeat handling has two numbers, delay and repeat. Delay is the number of milliseconds before a key starts repeating, and repeat is the number of milliseconds before the key start repeating again (so for 3rd, 4th time etc). You can set these values with (for example):
ir-keytable -D 300 -P 250
The default is -D 500 -P 125. Are these values more acceptable? I am inclined to think these numbers need improving.

The second problem I don't understand. What is the problem with multiple buttons?

Does lirc allow to hold down multiple buttons? Can you give an example so I can try and reproduce/understand please?