[mythtv] LIRC question

Hal Burch hburch at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 21:11:58 EST 2005


The remote control system seems a bit hackish, translating remote
events to keypress events.  Is this a conscience design, a result of
the recent addition of native LIRC support, or the result of the Lirc
library?

It would seem better for the keybindings to natively support LIRC
events (new column in keybinding).  This would make patches like trac
#549 unnecessary, and might allow for greater flexibility.  I've fixed
the remotekey-to-keypress mapping, and morphed my keybindings around
to get the functionality mapping as much as reasonable.  If I ever
actually wanted to use my keyboard, it would be difficult.

However, this may be considered a problem or there may be some more
fundamental reason for the current Lirc => KeyPress => action string
=> function call process I've seen in multiple places of which I am
unaware.

 - Hal


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