[mythtv-users] MCE remote without LIRC

[Bob Burgess]

On 10/11/10 05:58, Bob Burgess wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> I've recently installed MythTV onto a system running Ubuntu 10.4. I 
> then purchased a Windows Media Center remote. It was a very generic 
> cheap one, as I only bought it for the IR receiver, I'm using a 
> Logitech Harmony Remote and it's learnt the commands from the cheap 
> remote. I was trying to install LIRC as per the instructions, but I 
> constantly was running into the error
>
> lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
> lircd: Permission denied
You need to create the /var/run/lirc directory
>
> Whenever I tried to run it. irw also didn't work with a similar 
> problem. I then noticed that some commands on my remote were working 
> anyway. I have removed LIRC and sure enough the remote is still 
> working. It looks like the remote is simply being recognised as a 
> keyboard where each button on the remote is a keystroke, or a 
> combination of keystrokes. I then went into the MythTV frontend and 
> into the Edit Keys menu, and I can simply map the keystrokes coming in 
> from the remote to do whatever I want. I don't know how this works, 
> but it does.
>
> My remote does not seem to have a key that maps to the escape key, so 
> I mapped the backspace key to the "Escape" MythTV shortcut... The 
> problem is that this workaround works fine for browsing through the 
> menus, but won't work to stop watching TV or a Video. Whether I press 
> backspace on my keyboard or on my remote, it won't stop watching the 
> Video. The only way to stop watching was to press the Escape key on my 
> keyboard, which I left bound to the Escape shortcut. I even tried 
> unbinding the Escape key from the Escape shortcut, but that didn't 
> help. All that meant was that I wasn't able to stop watching the TV at 
> all.  Is there some reason why binding the Backspace key to Escape 
> works for everything else, but not leaving Videos? Is there some way I 
> can work around this? Any help would be great.
The binding in mythtv is a bit messy, I think you can tell mythtv to use 
a different key to escape (not part of mythcontrol) but tbh I don't know 
where.

You can remap you keyboard (remote) using xbindkeys with xmacro 
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts). I never tested it

Xavier
Thanks Xavier, that xbindkeys with xmacro seems to be exactly what I need. I think this is going to turn into a key-mixing mess by the end, but oh well.Thanks Again
Bob 		 	   		  
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