[mythtv] Question regarding LIRC support and gContext->getCurrentLocation()

[Navaho Gunleg]

On 5/30/06, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 13:43, Navaho Gunleg wrote:
> > > So just rebind the keys. E.G. Bind D in the Teletext Menu context to
> > > whatever action you want and to Delete in the other contexts.
> >
> > Well, that's just it. As I mentioned, remapping would indeed solve it,
> > but I do not want to touch the default key-assignments -- these work
> > fine for me when I /do/ use the keyboard.
>
> Sorry didn't actually read that far.
>
> I'd suggest that if changes were made to the lirc support that it would be a
> good idea to map directly to Myth actions instead of keys. It's been
> discussed in the past, I didn't pay much attention at the time but I seem to
> recall some resistance to that idea. Still it would allow both  keyboard and
> remote to be configured differently without a making lirc configuration too
> complicated. It would even be easier to code (he says without actually
> looking at the current stuff).
>
> It would also be nice to see remote key config brought under Myth's own UI,
> much like MythControls allows now for keyboard config.
>
> I'm not suggesting that you do both these things, I'm just raising them for
> discussion. I might even do it myself when I've finished my other tasks.

Indeed -- I have also been pondering 'native' LIRC support -- but not
using the lirc client libraries, but like the 'irw' utility does,
using the LIRC socket. This would require *major* modifications and,
at the moment, my understanding of both LIRC and especially such a big
project as MythTV just isn't good enough to accomplish this. The other
hack was pretty straight-forward really.

Complete integration would be the /most/ elegant solution; imagine
MythControls itself accepting the "Menu/i", "Play", "SkipForward"
identifiers from the LIRC socket. That would really be awesome. ;)

All in all, LIRC support, in its current form, is pretty basic and
extending its support throughout all of MythTV seems only a logical
next step. I don't use a joystick, but noticing the joystick thread
getting spawned in a similar way, I am assuming that those assignments
don't have any 'context' either so to speak? It could be wise to take
those into account as well.

Just thinking out loud.