[mythtv-users] DVB Remote Control and MythTV
Adrian Look
news at looksystems.ltd.uk
Mon Nov 24 04:39:09 EST 2003
On Monday 24 Nov 2003 09:28 am, Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> > > I've successfully set-up the keymap for the remote control, which is
> > > available on /dev/input/event0. What I don't understand is how to get
> > > MythTV to work with this form of input?
> > >
> > > I've searched the mailing list and google and can't find any clues as
> > > to what to do next. Am I missing something? or does this just not work?
>
> Of course it works with Myth?! That's what my patch was for.
>
> The remote sends normal keystrokes which Myth picks up. You currently need
> to manually tweak the driver to set your keyboard mappings though. My
> patch setup some reasonable keymappings for the grey Hauppauge remote of
> recent Nova-T's
Ok.
Now, this is what I don't understand - I must be really thick, or something -
how do the keycodes from /dev/input/event0 get into the keyboard buffer?
> You have one other option as well which is to run lirc pointing at your
> /dev/input1 file and then you can use the built in lirc support with Myth.
> I haven't done this, but others have reported success on the lirc list. I
> guess you don't need a recent version or lirc because you aren't using any
> of the lirc drivers, just the the lirc mechanism to translate between the
> input device and lirc apps? It should be a similar process as for the PVR
> cards I think?
I will investigate this as well.
Cheers,
--
Adrian Look
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