[mythtv-users] mceusb as an input device

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Harry Orenstein wrote:

> On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:31:45 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>> Yep, modified NEC just like Apple's remotes. The first two bytes of the
>>> signal are a vendor code, 0xa10c, rather than a command !command pair
>>> to be checksummed. I've got an entire keytable together for it now, but
>>> its actually going to require me to finally get around to some NEC
>>> decoder modifications to allow these types of signals to be decoded.
>>> 
>>> (Actually, I already wrote some code a few months back, but we still need
>>> to settle on how best to actually handle this w/the in-kernel decoders).
>> 
>> Patches for the TiVo remote to Just Work(tm) out of the box with this
>> bundle have been posted upstream, and have a decent chance of making
>> it into 2.6.39. I'll probably backport them into the Fedora 15 kernel
>> too.
> 
> Thanks once again!  For me I guess this is good news and bad new.  Good news 
> in that it will (probably) be in Fedora 15 when I upgrade and bad news in that 
> I have to wait until May for that to happen.
> 
> If I found the correct repository, it looks like your patch cannot be easily 
> be backported to Fedora 14.  It appears as if there were some more extensive 
> changes to the module (and the rest of the rc modules) back in December.

Fedora 14's kernel already carries a fairly up-to-date media stack, close to
what's in 2.6.38, the backport shouldn't be all that difficult. I might even
be convinced to do it when I've got some spare time... :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com