[mythtv-users] Fedora 14 & Hauppauge (Grey) & lirc devinput with Nova-T

[Jarod Wilson]

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Harry Lists wrote:

>>> P. S.  I just took a look at ir-kbd-i2c.c and it looks like remotes 
>>> other than the Hauppauge black/silver/grey remotes are ignored.  If 
>>> this is true then I guess it cannot possibly work with a 
>>> non-Hauppauge remote unless I compile a modified version.
>> 
>> Yeah, I suspect that's probably the issue here. ir-kbd-i2c would need
>> to allow non-Hauppauge signals through (we could add a knob to the
>> driver to allow that), and you'd need a custom keymap to map those
>> signals to input codes.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Doesn't ir-keytable support setting custom-created keymaps?  If so, I 
> don't have a problem using ir-keytable to do it.

Correct, I'd probably just duplicate the Hauppauge RC-5 one, and edit it
as needed for the universal remote...


> I am not skilled 
> enough to add a toggle to ir-kbd-i2c to allow non-Hauppauge remotes, but 
> I'll try commenting out the offending code and compiling a custom 
> version to test feasibility.  I'll report back when I get the chance 
> (probably this weekend).

...after bypassing the "is this a Hauppauge remote?" check, of course. :)

If that works fine, I'm sure we can whip something up that could go into
ir-kbd-i2c upstream.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com