[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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