[mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri May 27 16:19:09 UTC 2005


Ben Giddings wrote:

>On Thursday 26 May 2005 20:27, Michael Carland wrote:
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>>The problem I see with this in Myth is that there are many "modes" in 
>>Myth, where you may want the same remote key to perform a different 
>>function in different modes. This would be problematic if the function 
>>name was in the config line.
>>
>>Not that I have a better solution.
>>    
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>Then you could probably have a variety of "program" names for MythTV: 
>'mythmusic' would have one set of commands, 'mythweather' would have 
>another set, 'mythgui' another set, 'mythplayback' another set...
>
>You could also have some generic commands that worked for any myth mode, 
>like "delete", or "menu", or "seek +10".  They might not always apply 
>(like seek +10 wouldn't be of much use in the GUI) but whenever the mode 
>permitted that command, that command would work.
>  
>
Wow.  52 buttons on my remote times 5 or 10 program names (plus xine, 
MPlayer, and xmms) = one very big LIRC config file. :)

Mike


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