[mythtv-users] Web-based universal remote control
bdillahu at peachbush.com
bdillahu at peachbush.com
Tue Nov 4 16:11:40 EST 2003
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:42:07PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:49, Rich wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I was thinking of creating a web-based universal
> > remote for MythTV and all my other entertainment
> > devices. There would be 2 parts.
> >
> > One that would call LIRC to drive my IR
> > transmitter(control devices). That seems easy enough(I
> > can use php exec to call 'RC SEND_ONCE DEVICE
> > COMMAND').
> >
> > The second part is what I'm not sure about how to
> > implement. I want to send a keypress to the local
> > x-window so that i can navigate through mythfrontend.
> > Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Well, what if you used Myth's native LIRC support, but instead of using
> /dev/lirc you used a FIFO that you created. The /dev/lirc is a
> character (ascii) device IIRC, so you could just have your web app
> write remote key names to the FIFO, where mythfrontend would pick them
> up and process them according to your .lircrc.
>
> Just a thought.
>
I'm in to try to help with this, if somebody goes that direction... I could
really use the functionality, especially the drop it straight into a FIFO
type...
Bruce
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