TSOP4838 on GPIO, mode2 works, irw not working.

[jamesmallen]

I just started using a Radioshack IR receiver module (part # 276-640) plugged into the GPIO pins on my Raspberry Pi, and I was having the same issue as valurgud, with remote key presses appearing multiple times. Rather than remove the keyboard.xml file (which will likely get replaced by updates to XBMC), I decided to look further into the cause of the issue.

I noticed in the file /etc/lirc/hardware/lirc_rpi.conf there is the line below:

Code:

LIRCD_ARGS="-u"

This option causes LIRC to generate Linux input events, which appear to be keyboard-type events. Since XBMC is able to connect directly to LIRC, these seem unnecessary, so I commented out that line. Now button presses on my remote only register once!

I don't know enough about where that file came from to contribute the change back into the Xbian source code, but it seems like that might be a good bug to fix. Does anyone else more knowledgeable have any thoughts about that?