Pinnacle Systems Remote Kit not working

[thenork]

Thanks for the help -- for me, it was a usb issue. From
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting#R-Pi_does_not_respond_to_key_presses_.2F_Keyboard_randomly_repeats_key_presses
I added dwc_otg.speed=1 to the end of my cmdline.txt and now the remote works better.

Just to summarize a bit, my remote was working very partially (less than in other forum posts: no key worked on the first press, and then only some keys worked after holding down). It wasn't a lirc/ir-keytable conflict or anything because I could kill lirc and xbmc and just run ir-keytable -t and get similar bad results. I updated xbian as of 8/26, and it was still sticking. Then I added the one "dwc_otg.speed=1" to cmdline.txt and now it is working. I guess this slows down the usb speed, so I hope my usb hard drive will still be fast enough to read from.

I do have some keys that aren't working in xbmc, but they are showing up in ir-keytable -t, so I figure I can make them work.

I'd like ideally to use the IR blaster portion of the receiver, so I might try to migrate from keymaps to lirc or at least get lirc working as a blaster only. I suppose I can have xbmc send irsend commands via lirc.
I'm happy to do any testing.