[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend ignoring Shift in key sequence?

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Angela <angela.schmid at wolke7.net> wrote:

> >From: mythtv-users [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
> Karl Newman
> >
> >I'm trying to get an MCE remote (Ortek VRC-1100) and matching receiver
> working with my new frontend. One snag I appear to be hitting is that the
> key editor recognizes the Shift as part of the key sequence (Ctrl+Shift+F
> >for fast-forward) but the TV Playback seems to drop the Shift, so it sees
> only Ctrl+F, which maps to "Night Mode" by default. Even if I remove the
> Ctrl+F binding from Night Mode, the key sequence is still not recognized
> >for Seek FFWD. Similar for the seek backward (Ctrl+Shift+B is interpreted
> as Ctrl+B which maps to Jump to Beginning). I suspect this is a bug in the
> playback key recognition. Is there an "official" way to fix this? (I could
> >probably just edit the keymapping in MythWeb)
> >Also, are these key mappings typical or "standard" for an MCE remote? It
> would be great if Myth would work with these default mappings
> out-of-the-box. A lot of the buttons do work, but some important ones
> don't. >I'm willing to contribute a patch to improve this if someone can
> point me in the right direction (and if there's any chance that it would be
> accepted!).
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Karl
>
> Instead of using lirc, you could use eventlircd, it provides a lirc socket
> too.
> It supports the Ortek VCR-1100 (=Hama MCE as sold in Europe), USBid:
> 05a4:9881 out of the box.
> It uses an intermediate mapping (/etc/eventlircd.d/hama-mce.evmap) to map
> to your lircrc.
> Allows hotplugging using udev.
> You can test with irw (myth-frontend should not be running).
>
> Check which lirc socket mythtv uses (log files):
> /usr/sbin/eventlircd -f --socket=/var/run/lirc/lircd
>
> http://www.yavdr.org/documentation/de/ch02s03.html (german)
>
> Angela
>

Thanks, but I'm trying to keep this install slim, with as little extra
software as possible. It recognizes the keys from the remote using the
built-in HID/event input kernel driver without using lirc; it's just a
matter of getting Myth to either recognize the Shift when in actual usage
(this would be preferred but I understand there are some lirc legacy issues
with non-case sensitive characters) or getting it to ignore the Shift when
assigning the key (this is what I've done for now--modified keygrabber.cpp
to strip out/ignore the Shift).

Karl
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