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[Alec Leamas <1540659@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Other users in similar situations has been able to solve the problem by
using irrecord to make a new lircd.conf.

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Title:
  LIRC produces multiple events from one keypress

Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  lsb_release:
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  # apt-cache policy lirc
  lirc:
    Installed: 0.9.0-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 0.9.0-0ubuntu5
    Version table:
       0.9.0-0ubuntu5 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
   *** 0.9.0-0ubuntu1 0
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  What happened:

  After upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04.3, lirc 0.9.0-0ubuntu5 was
  generating multiple non-unique key press events.  "irw" showed that
  the multiple key presses didn't have event numbers (second column of
  irw output).  No hardware changed.  Only an upgrade to 14.04.3.

  No combination of min_repeat or suppress_repeats in lirc.conf would
  suppress the multiple events.   No combination of repeat or delay
  options in the .lircrc file worked either.

  This same configuration was working fine under 0.9.0-0ubuntu1 on a
  12.04 box.

  Sample IRW output:

  # Note the zero event number in the second column.
  0000000000001781 00 1 Hauppauge_350
  0000000000001781 00 1 Hauppauge_350
  0000000000001782 00 2 Hauppauge_350
  0000000000001782 00 2 Hauppauge_350
  0000000000001783 00 3 Hauppauge_350
  0000000000001783 00 3 Hauppauge_350

  I reverted the package back to  0.9.0-0ubuntu1 and the problem did not
  completely go away (there were occasional multiple events, but they
  were unique with an event number in the second field).  Adding
  suppress_repeats to the lirc.conf fixed this issue easily.

  One caveat is that I'm using an IguanaIR USB receiver wit the supplied
  igdaemon and the lirc iguanaIR driver blacklisted so the igdaemon can
  use libUSB to grab and talk to the receiver (iguana's recommended
  solution).

  Apparently there is some regression between 0.9.0-0ubuntu1 and
  0.9.0-0ubuntu5 that's not identifying unique events correctly.

  What I expected:

  LIRC would work with the config files from the previous machine (no
  other hardware changes other than an upgrade to 14.04.3).

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