[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation
Jim Abernathy
jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:47:33 UTC 2018
On 10/04/2018 05:45 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> On 4/10/18 7:25 pm, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/03/2018 02:27 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/03/2018 01:49 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:45 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com
>>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com
>>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> 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).
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> The ! At the beginning of the line is a comment for xmodmap
>>>>
>>>> ! 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> On the Wiki it says to use the 2017-11-29 version of Raspbian
>> Stretch. But the link has no such version that I can find.
>
> It is inside raspbian-2017-12-01/
>
>> the index shows:
>> -
>>
>>
>> [DIR] raspbian-2016-11-29/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2016-11-29/>
>> 2016-11-29 16:32 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-01-10/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-01-10/>
>> 2017-01-10 18:12 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-02-27/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-02-27/>
>> 2017-02-27 15:24 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-03-03/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-03-03/>
>> 2017-03-03 17:48 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-04-10/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-04-10/>
>> 2017-04-10 18:51 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-06-23/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-06-23/>
>> 2017-06-23 07:14 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-07-05/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/>
>> 2017-07-05 17:43 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-08-17/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-08-17/>
>> 2017-08-17 09:17 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-09-08/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-09-08/>
>> 2017-09-08 12:13 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2017-12-01/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-12-01/>
>> 2017-12-01 10:22 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2018-03-14/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-03-14/>
>> 2018-03-16 18:07 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2018-04-19/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-04-19/>
>> 2018-04-19 15:40 -
>> [DIR] raspbian-2018-06-29/
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-06-29/>
>> 2018-06-29 03:28 -
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the current known working version for Mythfrontend??
>>
>> Jim A
>
Thanks, I just found it inside 2017-12-01 when your email came in.
Thanks again.
Jim A
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