Hi,
I was quite annoyed how I could operate my EPIA MII-6000E using a LIRC remote. It was almost not possible to navigate through the OSD in a fast way.
The attached patch allows now to define timeouts and frequencies for example in Make.config, so there is no need to patch every VDR version. Furthermore, frequencies are now defined in unit 1/s instead of the unit ms (which defined the period), making values more intuitive.
There's now an additional frequency which defines, how fast a user is allowed to press the same button repeatedly. The originally used REPEATDELAY allowed only 2.85 button presses per second.
On slow and busy machines like my EPIA it happened often that several button presses were read by VDR in a single read, but only the first one got processed. The code now reads only a single button press from LIRC's socket, so button presses don't get lost (although presses of the same button will be skipped as the timeouts don't get reached).
To make it less likely that button presses get processed in chunks a further define allows to decrease the thread's niceness which means to boost it's priority. This feature requires VDR to be run as root.
This is my setup which follows some common settings found in mainboard bioses for keyboard repeat delay and frequency.
#vdr REMOTE=LIRC LIRC_PUSHFREQ=64 # 1/s LIRC_REPEATDELAY=250 # ms LIRC_REPEATFREQ=32 # 1/s #LIRC_REPEATTIMEOUT=500 # ms #LIRC_RECONNECTDELAY=3000 # ms LIRC_PRIORITYBOOST=1
Bye.