[mythtv-users] Just not getting ir-keytables?

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm experimenting with an MCE USB receiver and my existing TIVO34
>> remote. I've gotten to where I know the correct device and protocol
>> (NEC seems to be working).
>>
>> I've gotten as far as mapping a few key codes to the values I've
>> received using ir-keytable -t and have added a few to a file as:
>>
>> 0x3085c031    KEY_0
>> 0x3085d026    KEY_1
>> 0x3085d02a    KEY_2
>>
>> ...and as per stuff I've read:
>>
>> ir-keytable -w /home/tom/tivo_rc -d /dev/input/event2
>>
>> Which says it wrote 3 key codes to the driver.
>>
>> Maybe I'm just really stupid...but now what? How do I actually use it?
>> My understanding is that ends up emulating a keyboard but how? Is
>> there some other iteration of the ir-keytable command that facilitates
>> that?
>>
>> Silly, but I am just not getting this at all.
>>
>> Tom
>
> I've gotten as far as a) creating a map table,  b) loading it with the
> -w, and c) testing that mapping with ir-keytable -t, and all my
> assignments appear to be correct.
>
> But again...what now? Should the remote be acting like a keyboard or
> something now? Everything I read seems to stop there, but the only
> place I can even see a trace of it working is with the ir-keytable
> tests.
>
> What am I missing!?? I've spent all week in remote control
> hell...somebody please help...
>
> Tom

Duuuuuhhh.

OK...I had to restart X in order to see it as a keyboard...ffs.

Sorry for the noise.

Tom