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

Tom Dexter digitalaudiorock at gmail.com
Sun Aug 27 15:06:17 UTC 2017


On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Another Sillyname
<anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Tom
>
> I think you may have what I'd define as a 'workflow' issue.
>
> My suggestion would be.
>
> Once you have the remote working then open a terminal session and run
> ir-keytable -v -t
>
> Press every single key on the remote and make a note of what that key outputs
>
> Now open /etc/rc_keymaps/'the keymap file you're actually using'
>
> Also open https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings
>

I think you may have misunderstood the extent of the issue I have. All
of my keys are mapped in ir-keytables correctly and assigned to the
right MythTV key bindings, and all of them are working with the
exception of F13 (I also tried F14) which I have assigned to
TOGGLECC608. I originally had MythTV setup to use the tilde character,
but as far as I can see ir-keytables has no key code I can use for
that. Here's the ir-keytables test using F14:

ir-keytable -t
Testing events. Please, press CTRL-C to abort.
1503845237.134479: event type EV_MSC(0x04): scancode = 0x3085c033
1503845237.134479: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_down: KEY_F14(0x0001)
1503845237.134479: event type EV_SYN(0x00).
1503845237.390417: event type EV_KEY(0x01) key_up: KEY_F14(0x0001)
1503845237.390417: event type EV_SYN(0x00).

If I use LIRC instead, that remote button works in MythTV with this
entry in ~/.lircrc:

begin
    prog = mythtv
    button = ENTER
    config = f14
end

Just to clarify, the Enter button I'm using on this TIVO34 remote is a
small button on the far lower right for which I never had any other
purpose, and have always used for that CC function.

However it appears that the F13 and F14 keys specifically (haven't
tried the higher ones) simply can't recognized by MythTV via
ir-keytables. It's something specific to them.

If I have to I can make it work by un-assigning an existing mapping to
a key I can use and using that, but I was hoping to avoid that.

Tom


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