[mythtv-users] Toggling TV-Out with a Gamepad

[Jacob Kuenzel]

Hi,

I'd like to be able to enable/disable my nvidia card's TV-Out using my 
gamepad (I'm using an older tv and I need an rf modulator to use the 
svideo from my Myth box.  I'd like to be able to switch between Myth and 
regular cable input without having to screw with the cables. Toggling 
the tv-out accomplishes this.)

I have already written a script that does the toggling using nvtv, and I 
know how to setup gamepad button to key mappings, so what I really need 
is a way to bind a key to an action that will execute an arbitrary 
command. I noticed that ui buttons have an "EXEC" action, but there 
doesn't appear to be an analogous key action (I tried inserting a new 
row into the keybindings table with "EXEC /path/to/my/script.sh" as the 
action--it didn't work.

Is there any way to do this without writing any code (maybe somehow 
binding a key to activating a button)? I'm sure I could find a 3rd party 
app to handle it, but I would rather do it within Myth if possible so I 
don't need to have a bunch of different programs listening for joystick 
events.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Jacob Kuenzel