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I'm wondering if anybody has a Harmony 550 successfully working with lirc and XBMC?
I've got the Harmony 550 setup as a MCE remote and it generally works, but the button presses don't quite work like I want them to. I've tried messing with the gap setting in the conf file, but I can't find one that works really well. I've tried really low numbers and really high numbers. I have also tried messing with the <remoterepeat> setting in Advancedsettings but that isn't making much difference either.
I think I need to change a repeat setting somewhere or something. In irw, my remote commands seem to either register two or three times for each press, or they don't register at all. XBMC reflects this. When moving through lists, it either goes two or three items at a time, or it doesn't go at all. Hitting the select button either does a double click or it doesn't do anything at all.
I'm going to keep tweaking the gap and mess with the repeat settings, but if anybody has a Harmony 550 working well, I'd love to see your conf file. I'd also like to see what you set the delay settings at in the Harmony software.
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i believe I have an H550 and I do not experience any problems. I do however see buttons repeat when running "irw", however this has never caused any problems from within XBMC. The remote works great.
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Do you have it setup as an MCE remote? If so, did you have to change any of the config settings in lirc?
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yes, it is setup as mce remote i believe. that or the newer one. I did not use any special changes to lirc or in the harmony software. If i remember correctly, i believe i see like 3 button presses for each on in "irw".
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Weird. I'll try setting the delay settings on the Harmony back to their defaults. I messed with them a while back when I was using the remote with Vista.
It might be something with my IR Receiver. It came built into the computer and is probably not the best quality. I'm thinking about just purchasing one off NewEgg.
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Thanks, Haggy. I'll give that a shot.
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Oh.........my..........god............
It works!!! Haggy, you are the man! Using the vdr method you outlined works fantastic. The remote doesn't lag or stutter or anything. It's absolutely perfect in every way. It even seems more smooth than the MCE setup was in Vista.
I can't thank you enough. I spent literally hours trying to get the harmony to work as an MCE remote. I looked all over Google and nobody seemed to have the same problem. I'm really glad you saw this thread and decided to respond.
Now if only I could get the PC to wake up from suspend without hanging, my setup would be perfect.
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My PC goes to sleep just fine. But when I try to wake it up, it just hangs. The only thing it does is start spinning the fan and then it just sits there. I think I hear the hard drives spin back up too. The screen doesn't come back so I don't get any error messages or anything. The network doesn't seem to come up because I can't SSH into it.
The only log I know about to look at is pm-suspend.log. It shows the events to suspend and says it was successful, but it doesn't log anything about waking up.
I've pretty much just given up on that part. I followed the minimal install guide to set it up, and it boots pretty quickly from a cold boot. I'm going to try Ubuntu 9.04 when it comes out and see if works then. Unless you have any ideas for me. Any logs that I could possibly look at?
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sounds like a serious acpi/bios issue. unfortunately, if you're not on a notebook which tend to have better acpi implementations, there's little you can do about it. have a look at kern.log, messages, syslog and dmesg. you can post them to pastebin and i'll have a look at it.
meanwhile, try pci=nomsi as a kernel boot parameter and see if that helps. it may solve issues with pci cards not waking up properly.
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Thanks for the tip, I'll try that kernel parameter and cross my fingers. If not, I'll just see what the next version of Ubuntu brings. I've been googling it a lot and it appears that 9.04 has some fixes for stuff like this.
I remember looking at some of those logs you mentioned but I didn't see anything relating to suspend. I'll try to post them for you when I get home anyway, maybe you can find something in them that's helpful.
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Sorry, don't have much time atm, but after a first look i also don't see something suspicous - it just looks like normal reboots?! Did you try that kernel parameter?