[mythtv-users] ECS LIVA Frontend

[marcus hall]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:35:50PM -0400, Tom Bongiorno wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> 
> > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/VRC-1100_Ortek_Technology_MCE_Clone_Remote or
> > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Adesso_ARC-1100 (same remote, different
> > branding)
> > I'm using this with my (Gentoo) Liva. I'm not using LIRC, but the first
> > link gives details on how to make it work with LIRC and the devinput
> > driver. I just looked for a cheap "MCE" remote off amazon and this is what
> > I got. It wasn't a big deal to get it working, but did require a bit of
> > fiddling with ir-keytable. My config is at the bottom of the second link,
> > under the "Alternate Configuration" heading.
> >
> > Karl
> >
> >
> Those remotes should work fine with the flirc.

Do note that the MCE remotes use a coding that toggles one bit each time
that the button is pressed.  This is used to detect a separate press as
opposed to a momentary loss of signal within a single press.  The flirc
will have to learn both codes for the button.  This isn't a big deal, but
when programming it you do have to remember to press the button twice and
learn both codes.

One disadvantage to this is that if you add external programs to your
mythtv menus, they may want a different set of keys to do similar actions..
P may mean pause to mythtv, but MEDIA_PAUSE may mean pause to the other
program (and if there are multiple programs, it gets more complicated still).
Mythtv has configurable keycodes, and hopefully other programs do as well,
so it is a bit of work but possible to come up with a common set of key to
action mapping.  Still, lirc knows how to send different keys to different
programs for the same action.

Nothing's perfect very often..

marcus hall
marcus at tuells.org