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Can someone at least tell me how to begin troubleshooting the problem? Like I said, it was working fine so I would guess that the remote is compatible.
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OK. I've searched and searched and I can't find any info on this. What does the little red light on the receiver staying on mean? Nobody else has ever experienced this?
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Have an Asrock ION 330 as well, and my IR receiver started behaving in a similar manner to what you describe. It also worked initially....
The IR receiver would flash constantly for long durations with small pauses in between, and no buttons are pressed on any remote. If you are lucky to press a button in the small pauses, the operation will take, if not, nothing happens.
Also, I used to be able to just suspend the machine using the remote by using that setting in XBMC, and then when powering on my system, the ION would come out of suspend mode and work. Now when the machine goes into suspend, it almost immediately restarts, but to the Gnome desktop since XBMC is no longer running. could not see any crashlog.
This behaviour disappeared when I updated to SVN "Built on Sep 6 2009 (SVN:Unknown)".
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What receiver are you using?
Does the Asrock have something built into the case or is it a proper MCE Usb receiver?
run 'lsusb' and post back your results..
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The red light should indicate infared activity picked up by the receiver, right? If so, is it possible you have something in this new room that emits in the infra red? Have you tried in the original room?
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Ok try running this;
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc
Then select the Windows Media Center reciever, you should see two versions in the list.
One should say something like Old/V1/Microsoft, the other New/V2/Philips.
You want to choose the Microsoft one, then hit ok/next.
Choose a blaster if you use one...
Once you complete this you should see several things at the command line;
Lirc Stopping, Lirc Starting Etc..
Check that all of these comlpete with 'OK'
Then restart XBMC and see if it works.
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OK this is weird! I tried your suggestion Swifty, but it still did the same. I even tried selecting the New MCE remote option in the LIRC setup and it still did the same. Realizing I never did try papf's suggestion to try the other room agin, I moved the system back to the other room and voila... it works! What the heck could be causing problems in the other room? I removed all the remotes that were in there to rule them out and it didn't change anything.
The problem room is a standard fare bedroom. The system sits on a dresser underneath an new LCD TV and is flanked by a Logitech 5.1 surround sound system. Nothing else unusual in the room except my wife an I both have an iPhone charging cradle on our night stands. I can't imagine what could be causing this.
Anybody with ideas or suggestions??
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mm, you don't want to unplug ALL other equipment including TV and if it makes a differnce you turn them on one by one?
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I finally nailed it down to my LCD TV. Anywhere within 7-8 feet and the receiver was picking up a constant signal. Turn off the TV and the signal disappeared. Some web searching lead me to a post where someone said they had a similar problem and figured out that it was the TV's "brightness sensor"/"energy saver" feature. I went in and turned that off and now the remote works. Go figure!
Thanks to all that replied and helped in this thread. Especially you papaf for the suggestion that lead to figure this all out.