[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation

[Peter Bennett]

On 10/03/2018 01:49 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
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>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:45 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>>     3) Buy one of those mini keyboard remotes that can be used with
>>     Android.  You'd have a full keyboard.  Most of them work with a
>>     radio signal and you don't have to use line of sight like with an
>>     IR remote.  Some tilt (they have some kind of gyroscope) and they
>>     have really awkward mouse control.  Some of them have a touchpad,
>>     like a laptop, and you can move the pointer with that.  They're
>>     cheap, probably less than $25
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>> I bought this one: http://a.co/d/2lJGK6R and it's not available but 
>> there are several others (This one is Amazon's Choice: 
>> http://a.co/d/4SHvnFH and as you can see, it's less than $15).
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>> If you go this route, I'd look around for the one you want as you're 
>> the one who is going to have to use it.  Some have touch pads and 
>> some don't. You can find these remotes all over the internet.
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>> It's just $15 bucks and you can use it in just about any USB device.  
>> It emulates a keyboard. You can program a few IR commands too like 
>> your TV Power.  Mine learns commands from another remote control but 
>> only for a few buttons.  It works pretty much out of the box; there 
>> is almost no configuration needed.
>>
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> I too have one of the remotes you link to above with the ‘gyro mouse’ 
> I rarely use that function with mythtv as all the other buttons on the 
> arrow/media control side function fine for most mythtv functionality. 
>  I did do an xmodmap to map some of the media control side buttons to 
> mythtv functions. Here is the contents of my xmodmap that I used:
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> The ! At the beginning of the line is a comment for xmodmap
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> ! keycode 426 = P   # this is magnify +
> ! keycode 427 = P   # this is magnify -
> ! keycode 171 = <   # this is the >>| button
> ! keycode 173 = <   # this is the |<< button
> ! keycode 216 = >   # this is the >> button
> ! keycode 176 = <   # this is the << button
> ! keycode 225 = R   # this is the search button
> keycode 166 = Escape
> keycode 135 = M
> keycode 179 = S
> keycode 158 = E
> keycode 163 = I
> keycode 172 = P
> keycode 216 = greater
> keycode 176 = less
> keycode 225 = R
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> Regards,
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You can also use your TV remote if your TV supports CEC The raspberry pi 
has CEC support built in.

Make sure you go follow the recommendations in 
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance for the best 
performance.

Peter

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