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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Jacob Kuenzel wrote:
> 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.
>   
I think this almost has to be done with an outside program listening for 
events.  Myth is only concerned with events for itself.  I use the 
features of my window manager to handle keyboard presses for things like 
resetting the frontend.  I think something analogous to ir-exec for the 
joystick is what you're looking for.

Kevin