[mythtv-users] Twinhan DVB Remote Control

Jit V jit_v1 at hotmail.com
Wed Jan 19 12:52:04 EST 2005


I've got a Twinhan DVB card that came with a USB IR dongle and a remote 
control. I'm having some issues with the remote control and wondered if 
anyone else had come across these:

1. The remote gets registered as a usb-hid device - which means that it's 
working, but it's seen as a keyboard/mouse device. This isn't so bad, but 
some of the buttons on the remote map to very strange key codes, is it 
possible to configure these?

2. The remote is very very sensitive - one button press sometimes gets 
registered as two or more presses - which can be very annoying. Is there 
anyway to set a key repeat rate?

3. I've noticed that the IR receiver seems to get confused and picks up 
signals from my TV remote – it’s generally okay, except for when I hold down 
the volume button on my TV remote for over a second, in which case the IR 
receiver registers it as a 'down' key press.

I noticed that a number of useful utilities for HID devices is available for 
NetBSD - usbhidaction and usbhidctl (see links below), does anyone know if 
there's an equivalent for Gentoo?

http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/usbhidaction.1.html
http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/usbhidctl.1.html

Any ideas, solutions or help would be much appreciated.

Thanks you!




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