[mythtv-users] Patches to enable out-of-the-box MCE remote support

[Karl Newman]

Hi all,

In setting up a new frontend recently I bought an MCE remote to operate it.
I discovered that it *almost* worked. Some key things such as the arrow
keys and select (OK) work great, and alone I think that's enough to get to
Setup and get the rest of the keys mapped (except for some inconsistent
Shift key handling). However, since the MCE remotes are so common and
cheap, I thought it would be nice if MythTV would work completely with the
remote out-of-the-box (as much as practical). I have attached two patches
which change the default key mapping for TV playback and MythMusic. I'm
submitting them for review because I had to move some existing key mappings
out of the way. For example Night Mode (Ctrl+F) conflicted with Seek Fast
Forward, and Jump to beginning (Ctrl+B) conflicted with Seek Rewind. Also
my remote is an Ortek VRC-1100 which is actually an HID device so I would
like to get some feedback from true MCE remote owners to make sure the keys
are the same before I submit it as a ticket.

Despite these key mappings I still had to remap a couple buttons using
ir-keytable. I swapped the Clear (Esc) and Back (Backspace) buttons, and I
changed the "i" button from mouse right click to the letter M. The mouse
right click worked to bring up the menu in all of the Myth screens, but it
would not do it during TV playback. It would be nice if it could be changed
to bring up the menu during playback, but I took a quick peek at the code
and it's not completely clear to me how that all fits together.


Sincerely,

Karl
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