XBMC on Arch with CEC problems

[Clouseau]

Hi everyone, first post

Ok, I have tried Openelec, Xbian,Raspbian and Raspbmc but finished on Arch because I'm a long time arch user on desktop
But I have one weird problem with my CEC remote and XBMC on archarm on my Pi. There are often repeats registered when I press key once, I mean XBMC registers two keypress but I press only once key on my Cec remote. This occurs on all above mentioned distros expect Openelec. I can't use Openelec because my Pi is not only dedicated for xbmc task.

Does anyone know what Openelec have or has tuned with xbmc or somewhere else that xbmc in archarm doesn't have?

I have tried giving more priority on xbmc with nice, didn't help. I have also tried with remotedelay and remoterepeat options in advancedsettings.xml file but I think this is limited to Lirc remotes.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=advancedset ... tedelay.3E

I have even tried with a bigger value in peripherals.xml file double_tap_timeout_ms setting to 8000 https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/maste ... herals.xml but it doesn't help.

Anybody else have this behaviour?

[moonman]

give xbmc-rbp-git a try. Openelec maybe using git version - can't tell you for sure

[Clouseau]

Tnx, forgot to mention, behaviour is the same with alarm/xbmc-rbp 12.2-2
and
aur/xbmc-rbp-git

I would say the problem is in libcec-rpi which is older version https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues/605

I have googled and found this https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libcec-rpi-git/

but on Pi when I search for it with pacman -Ss libcec there is no libcec-rpi-git. I tried downloading PKBUILD manually on Pi and tried to build the package but it brakes, the rpi patch is broken probably... Wait, that libcec-rpi-git is a package for Pi that is in AUR and I can find it with packer on my desktop x64 PC. If I build it it would be for x86_64 arhitecture not arm...

EDIT: just figured it out, archarm repo has AUR different from AUR on aur.archlinux.org... archarm has prebuild some packages from AUR but not all of them, I must use packer to see all AUR pkgbuilds which I can try and build it for arm...
I have tried bulding the above package with packer on my Pi but it brakes.

EDIT2: I have contacted the maintainers, the problem is there is no enough ram on my Pi. I will try to compile it on my virtual machine following this guide https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec

[Clouseau]

Ok, in the end I succesfully compiled it from AUR on Pi(had to use swap file). An the problem persists, repeats are still present. There must be a problem somewhere else in the system...

[moonman]

the aur version... the pkgbuild IS old, but it's still currrent. It pull the latest git sources and builds it. I really don't know what to suggest here as I don't use it myself. Are you fully up to date?

[Clouseau]

Totally up to date with system... Also open an issue on github on Pulse Eight libcec. Will register in Openelec to see what they have done, although, beside you, the response from other few sides is not existing...

[moonman]

Just tested cec with my toshiba tv connected to a pioneer receiver. Everything works as it should

Using linux-raspberrypi-latest 3.12.1 and xbmc-rbp-git 13 alpha 9

[Clouseau]

Great it works for you

I have tried with xbmc-rbp-git-13.20131124-1 and linux-raspberrypi 3.10.19-3 and double keypresses are registered. Also the videos want play, I see no picture and hear no sound although it starts playing...

I have upograded today to xbmc-rbp-git-13.20131126-1 but now xbmc won't start, says: Unable to create GUI... And in crashlog:

19:49:31 T:3015222336 ERROR: CecLogMessage - failed to release the previous LA
19:49:31 T:3015222336 ERROR: CecLogMessage - could not open a connection (try 1)
19:49:33 T:3036054384 ERROR: EGL error in CreateSurface: 3003
19:49:33 T:3036054384 NOTICE: CreateWindow: Could not create a surface. Trying with a fresh Native Window.
19:49:33 T:3036054384 ERROR: EGL error in CreateSurface: 300b
19:49:33 T:3036054384 ERROR: CreateWindow: Could not create surface
19:49:33 T:3036054384 ERROR: CreateNewWindow: Could not create new window
19:49:33 T:3036054384 FATAL: CApplication::Create: Unable to create window

Also linux-raspberrypi-latest 3.12.1-1 with xbmc-rbp-git-13.20131124-1 doesn't work, shows the sam Unable to create GUI error.

Don't know how you managed to get it work, but I'll stay on linux-raspberrypi 3.10.19-3 and xbmc-rbp-git 13.20131021-1 cause it works, besides double cec key presses sometimes registered.

Btw. what is your mem split? Mine is gpu_mem_512=256

[moonman]

I have 128 mb for gpu. Try adding the udev rule mentioned after the package installation.

[jskier]

Only xbmc-rbp-git 13.20131021-1 works for me, otherwise last two updates kill video / audio and can't actually play. GUI will start with 1126 build, but no playback.

256 for my GPU (dynamic settings), B model Pi.