[mythtv-users] Remote Suggestions

[Jerry]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 1/21/2016 11:39 AM, Jerry wrote:
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>>  You get the FLIRC, a small USB dongle.
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> Dongle comes with it?
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It is the dongle.  It's one piece.  It is about an inch and a half long and
stubby, like a small USB drive.  That's the only thing you get.


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> A big on screen keyboard pops up.  You make a virtual keyboard
>> combination for each separate command you want to perform in Mythtv.
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> I'm used to getting the remote configured and tested with IRW *before* I
> get the GUI running.
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> You can use https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings to use the default
>> keybindings, using the simple set of commands and expanding to add the
>> other commands to suit you.
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> And then map the remote presses to the keybindings to operate Myth. I am
> familiar how to do this under LIRC. I just want to know how you do it
> with FLIRC.
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Er... how you do it is with the FLIRC software, that's it.  You just click
the keyboard buttons on the screen to program the FLIRC.  Just clicks of
the mouse.  It's not at all complicated.  Get a kid to do it for you --
throw him a quarter.  :)  But you have to use the keys you have mapped or
the default ones that Mythtv usually uses.  The FLIRC needs to know what
keys to hit.  The software is so easy to use -- there are not many
options.  Clickety-click done.

I'm not sure how to make that any clearer.  Go to the FLIRC website.
Download the software at https://flirc.tv/downloads and try it out.  It's
self-explanatory.  It works without the FLIRC at least enough for you to
see what it will do.  Again, I'm trying to explain this as best I can
without flogging a dead horse.  I don't work for FLIRC but I think they
have a nice product.

The thing is, you're going to be faced with a static remote mapping.  So
LEFT will always be A, and RIGHT will always be D.  Or whatever.  If you
change programs on your machine, you'll have the same mapping.  It's
certainly not practical for you to unplug your FLIRC, load another
configuration, and plug it back in.  So if your new program needs new
keys...  you get the idea.  But maybe you could program that new program to
match the first program that called it.  Whew!  I haven't tried this -- my
FLIRC machine doesn't do anything that complicated.

There is also no irexec like LIRC has.  You can't hit a key on your remote
and launch a shell script of your choosing.  I'm fairly certain that the
key presses are limited to regular key presses and not CTRL-X,
'/usr/bin/myscript.sh' or what have you.  So there will be that limitation.

If you can get LIRC working, that's really your best bet.  You don't have
to pay for that, and it will do everything you need to do.  That's
sometimes a lot harder with a great reward if you get there.

Anyway, fire away with any more FLIRC questions you have.  I think that's
most of it.

Jerry
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