vdr: [2795] ERROR: remote control XineRemote not ready! - vdr

17 Aug 2010


      I wonder if somebody who understands fully the interaction between lirc, xine and vdr can help me debug my setup.
The PC has no keyboard or mouse connected and it is operated exclusively via the remote control for most of the part and ssh for the rest
I have only one irritating bug, I use oxine as a front end (then calling shells as appropiate) and it I do not press any key on the remote for approximately 5 minutes while on this screen, the remote ceases to operate until I reboot
(once this happens if I run irw I can see output as usual) I wonder if it is because my setup, although working perhaps it is kind of not optimal.
My remote is the type that uses input events (comes with the hauppagge sat card)  using dev/input in lirc
dmesg |grep input6
input: cx88 IR (Hauppauge WinTV-HVR400 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:01:06.2/rc/rc0/input6
In xine itself I was not able to map the special vdr commands (I tried but would not recognise most buttons)  so I am not using that feature.
My remote.conf
#LIRC.Up         ArrowUp
#LIRC.Down       ArrowDown
#LIRC.Left       ArrowLeft
#LIRC.Right      ArrowRight
#LIRC.Ok         Enter
#LIRC.Pause      Pause
LIRC.Stop       Stop
LIRC.Record     Record
LIRC.Play       Play
LIRC.0          0
LIRC.1          1
LIRC.2          2
...
I commented out the Arrow buttons because otherwise I was getting duplicate responses (for example I would press once the down button and it would go down twice, not one)
I call vdr from a script with vdr -c /etc/vdr -E /var/epgvdr --lirc --no-kbd -l 1 -P'xine -r'
I have the powerbutton mapped to kill xine (so the script continues and returns to the oxine menu once xine is not running anymore and this works fine) 
begin
        button = Power
        prog   = irexec
        repeat = 0
        config = sudo killall xine mms
end
and finally mappings for xine itself:
begin
        button = Power
        prog   = irexec
        repeat = 0
        config = sudo killall xine mms
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = Menu
    config = OSDStreamInfos
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = Enter
    config = EventSelect
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = Pause
    config = Pause
    config = OSDStreamInfos
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = PrevSong
    config = SeekRelative-30
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = NextSong
    config = SeekRelative+30
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ArrowLeft
    config = EventLeft
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ArrowRight
    config = EventRight
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ArrowUp
    config = EventUp
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ArrowDown
    config = EventDown
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = Power
    config = Quit
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = BackExit
    config = back
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = VolumeUp
    config = Volume+
    repeat = 2
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = VolumeDown
    repeat = 2
    config = Volume-
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ChannelUp
    config = ZoomIn
end
begin
    prog   = xine
    button = ChannelDown
    config = ZoomOut
end