Long Delay between Event and action

[tobif2000]

Hallo,

I am using Girder in conjunction with the Igor Plug-In to control XBMC with my infrared remote. In general it is working fine and I was quite happy with that solution. One thing is bothering me more and more: Sometimes when I press a button on my remote it takes 10s of seconds until Girder sends the appropriate action... I have attached a picture of the log file and you can see that it takes more than 30s betwenn pushing the button on the remote until finally Girder executes the corresponding action..
When using directly the keyboard XBMC follows my commands immidiatly..
I am using keyboard spoofing to send the commands to XBMC. I also tried sending http requests but that did not make any difference in this respect..
I also have activated the "Force Send Key". That does not make any difference either. Does anyone know what this option is all about? I could find any documentation..

Any help greatly appreciated!!

tobif2000

[Ron]

Can you try to use the RAW codes see if the delay goes away. So instead of using the ENTER event use the 8B7 event.

[tobif2000]

Hi Ron,

that did not make any difference (see attached screen shot)...

Thanks for your help!

[Ron]

Do you have anti-repeat enabled? Upload your GML if you can. and pinpoint the node...

[tobif2000]

Yes I have anti repeat enabled! See attached screen shot and GML File.

[Ron]

Looks like it is working as designed.

Event 18.53.43:537 <- triggers action. (action completes at 18.53.43.893)
Event 18.53.04:773 <- does not trigger action (blocked by anti repeat 500ms)
Event 18.53.04:687 <- triggers action (action completes at 18.53.05.193 )

[tobif2000]

You are right. The logging looks ok.
Nevertheless I am experiencing major delays between pressing a button and the action. Since the time is really long (10s of seconds) it is possible to find out what excatly is delayed: When I press the button on the remote Girder does not see the event immidiatly. It does take a very long time until the event is shown in the logger. Once it is recognised the action is triggered immidiatly: I can press a button on the remote, then switch to the logging window, put the remote on the table and only after a while the event is logged by Girder..
The question now is why does it take that long from sending the command on the remote until an event is recognised by Girder.. Might it be a problem with the Igor Plug?

[Ron]

I wonder if the key send is slowing things down. Can you disable the action and see if the key presses are coming in normally.

[tobif2000]

Your assumption is true (see attached screen shot):
I have disabled the send key action when the "ARROW UP" event is received. In the logging you can see that the event is coming through perfectly. Only after the "ARROW DOWN" event triggers a Sendkey action it takes a couple of seconds until girder sees the "ARROW UP" event again..
Any idea what I could change so that these delays disappear?

[Ron]

This has to do with the application that we are controlling not responding to the keypresses. Try the send-to-foreground or alternative key send routines. (send to foreground should be your best bet)