Copernicus | # 871 | 2013-04-28, 10:37 | Report

Hmm. Yeah, the possibilities are getting a bit more limited here. If the led is flashing when a button is pressed, and stops flashing after a button stops being pressed, then there are no internal communication problems within Pierogi itself. Some sort of corruption within the Pierogi data would explain it, but wouldn't explain why the problem gets reset by turning the screen off and on again. A protocol bug would work too, but that wouldn't explain why the first keypress works. (And the "NEC" protocol is the best tested of all the protocol code in Pierogi.)

I hate to say it, but at this point, I'm thinking the issue probably lies outside of Pierogi itself...

If the led is lighting up, I can only think of two possibilities -- errors are being introduced into the led timing data as multiple requests come in, or the light is getting weaker as multiple requests come in. To rule out the second possibility, maybe you could hold the N900 right up to the sensor on the speaker set, and see if the buttons start working?

Odds are, though, that it's some sort of error in the timing data. Let me start digging into the CSSU changelogs again; maybe there's an IR-hardware-related change that went in somewhere. (Although, again, I would kind of expect that other users would have also experienced it by now. )

HtheB | # 872 | 2013-04-28, 11:12 | Report

When will the update be available with the MT Logic keysets?
(Or is there someway to update the list?)

sixwheeledbeast | # 873 | 2013-04-28, 11:22 | Report

AFAIK an update was pushed into devel for you to test.

Copernicus | # 874 | 2013-04-28, 11:31 | Report

Actually, I haven't gotten the MT-logic keysets up yet. Let me try to clean up and get another release out asap.

Whispering Weasel | # 875 | 2013-04-28, 11:33 | Report

Yes , it is flashing as it should when button is pressed ond stops when button is released. holding it right up to the lens doesn´t make any difference.

I don´t know what would cause it either I don´t think i even have other IR related stuff installed. maybe it is something on my device, any libraries or other things i could check? as i am probably the only one with that speakerset and a n900 it is kind of hard to determine where the problem is

Copernicus | # 876 | 2013-04-28, 12:01 | Report

Hmm. Right now, I would rule out the speakerset itself as an issue; the fact that you can temporarily fix the problem by switching the N900's screen off and on makes me believe that it has to be something on the N900 itself. (But yeah, if you ever do find yourself in front of another device that can be controlled by IR, it'd be interesting to see if Pierogi has the same problem with it.)

Really, once Pierogi sends the on/off timing array to the driver, there's very little that can affect it. Maybe there's some subtle new issue with the kernel?

(BTW, thank you for letting me drag you through so many different tests. It isn't often that I get to deal with such an interesting bug! )

Copernicus | # 877 | 2013-04-28, 12:55 | Report

Hey, I finally did something that I should have tried earlier -- I googled the MT-Logic company itself. It appears that, like many other TV brands, they don't manufacture their own devices. The chance of finding a good config file would go up if we can find the original manufacturer of the TV.

It seems that the LE-427118MT was sold through Aldi, but that company doesn't manufacture TVs either. I've found a note on a forum board that links MT-Logic to "Audiosonic", and from there to "Tristar", which is apparently a company doing manufacturing in Turkey. Let me do a little more digging.

Also, if you haven't already, could you run the "Automated Keyset Search" and see if Pierogi already has any keysets that might work with the TV? Thanks!

don_falcone | # 878 | 2013-04-28, 14:38 | Report

...the Tristar connection btw could be found out already by observing links / includes on the MT-Logic site.

qwazix | # 879 | 2013-04-28, 15:32 | Report

I'm happy to tell you that your stateful AC control works

The power off setting doesn't work though which is fortunate, as I had to dig up my original remote whose batteries had melted inside it, and I saved it from bigger damage

Another glitch I noticed is that some times setting the swing function activated turbo too. Most of the times it worked fine...

Please also check out your Epson projector 2, it misses a power off button (the projector remote has seperate on and off buttons)

Copernicus | # 880 | 2013-04-28, 16:02 | Report

Thank you!! Well, now I really do need to create a decent UI for it, and see if I can come up with a few more keysets. (This'll definitely be something to show off against other universal remotes!)

I can believe that the power-off is bad, the hifi-remote guys were scratching their heads over that one. The swing and turbo bitfields are right next to each other, so I might have gotten some overlap somewhere. I'll take a look...

Will do; the keysets I have right now seem to only have a single (toggle) power command, rather than discrete on and off commands. I'll see if I can scrounge up a better config file somewhere...

EDIT: By the way, can you tell me the model number of the AC that worked? I'd like to grab Samsung's info on the device, and see if I'm missing anything else in the controls...

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Last edited by Copernicus; 2013-04-28 at 16:08. Reason: Another request