I have an unusual problem with my homebrew IR receiver. It works fine as long as the mythfrontend is not running (irw returns all the codes for the buttons pressed), but as soon as mythfrontend starts running, it stops working (no more data from irw and the frontend does not respond to the remote).
I had a closer look by running xmode2 with and without the frontend running and in both cases, repeatedly pressing the 1 button on my remote:
Here's what I saw without the frontend running:
and here's what I saw with the frontend running:
As you can see from the images, there is a recognisable pattern to the pulses when the frontend is not running, but something seems to be corrupting things when the frontend is running, resulting in no recognisable pattern (so it's not surprising it doesnt work).
Exiting the frontend makes it work like it did in the beginning again.
I was not doing anything in the frontend, it was just sitting at the main menu.
Anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this corruption?
Hardware:
Diskless frontend on a Compaq EVO DS510.
2.4 GHz Pentuim 4.
256M RAM
FX5200 graphics via composite out to tv.