[mythtv-users] ***SPAM*** Caveats in upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 + MythTV 29.1 to something newer?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:24:43 +0000, you wrote:

>On 09/03/2023 23:27, Will Dormann wrote:
>> Hi folks,
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>> 
>> Having skimmed through this list from time to time, I seem to recall 
>> seeing messages along the line of "lirc doesn't work anymore unless you 
>> do <blah>", or something similar.
>
>
>I went through the swap from lirc to evdev last year. I build the disc 
>image for my frontend with kiwi-ng and have the recipe in a git 
>repository here: https://github.com/Glidos/kiwi-mythfrontend
>
>Looking back, I can see that I ...
>
>* Removed lirc from the system including all the old config and tables
>
>* Added a package called v4l-utils (may be called something else in 
>distros other than openSuSE)
>
>* Created a file called rc6_mce in /etc/rc_keymaps, containing
>
>0x800f0400 KEY_0
>0x800f0401 KEY_1
>0x800f0402 KEY_2
>0x800f0403 KEY_3
>0x800f0404 KEY_4
>0x800f0405 KEY_5
>0x800f0406 KEY_6
>0x800f0407 KEY_7
>0x800f0408 KEY_8
>0x800f0409 KEY_9
>0x800f040c KEY_T
>0x800f040d KEY_M
>0x800f040f KEY_I
>0x800f0410 KEY_F11
>0x800f0411 KEY_F10
>0x800f0412 KEY_UP
>0x800f0413 KEY_DOWN
>0x800f0414 KEY_RIGHTBRACE
>0x800f0415 KEY_LEFTBRACE
>0x800f0416 KEY_ENTER
>0x800f0417 KEY_R
>0x800f0418 KEY_P
>0x800f0419 KEY_O
>0x800f041a KEY_Z
>0x800f041b KEY_Q
>0x800f041c KEY_T
>0x800f041d KEY_T
>0x800f041e KEY_UP
>0x800f041f KEY_DOWN
>0x800f0420 KEY_LEFT
>0x800f0421 KEY_RIGHT
>0x800f0422 KEY_ENTER
>0x800f0423 KEY_ESC
>0x800f0426 KEY_S
>
>
>I think I may have come up with those codes by running a program that 
>displayed them while pressing keys on the remote, but I can't off hand 
>remember the name of the program.

If you go down that route, remember that the remote can only be used
for one program (MythTV).  I always need to use mplayer as an
alternative player from mythfrontend, as I have quite a few old .wmv
files and some DVDs that MythTV can not play properly.  So using
direct key mappings would not work for using the remote with
mythfrontend and mplayer.

Your rc6_mce file is in the old format.  For Ubuntu 22.04, it would
need to be converted to .toml format, which looks like this where I
have copied the original and added one new key assignment that was
missing:

root at crw-pvr:/etc/rc_keymaps# cat haupp.toml
[[protocols]]
name = "haupp"
protocol = "unknown"
[protocols.scancodes]
0x1e00 = "KEY_0"
0x1e01 = "KEY_1"
0x1e02 = "KEY_2"
0x1e03 = "KEY_3"
0x1e04 = "KEY_4"
0x1e05 = "KEY_5"
0x1e06 = "KEY_6"
0x1e07 = "KEY_7"
0x1e08 = "KEY_8"
0x1e09 = "KEY_9"
0x1e0a = "KEY_KPASTERISK"
0x1e0b = "KEY_RED"
0x1e0c = "KEY_RADIO"
0x1e0d = "KEY_MENU"
0x1e0e = "KEY_GRAVE"
0x1e0f = "KEY_MUTE"
0x1e10 = "KEY_VOLUMEUP"
0x1e11 = "KEY_VOLUMEDOWN"
0x1e12 = "KEY_CHANNEL"
0x1e14 = "KEY_UP"
0x1e15 = "KEY_DOWN"
0x1e16 = "KEY_LEFT"
0x1e17 = "KEY_RIGHT"
0x1e18 = "KEY_VIDEO"
0x1e19 = "KEY_AUDIO"
0x1e1a = "KEY_IMAGES"
0x1e1b = "KEY_EPG"
0x1e1c = "KEY_TV"
0x1e1e = "KEY_NEXT"
0x1e1f = "KEY_BACK"
0x1e20 = "KEY_CHANNELUP"
0x1e21 = "KEY_CHANNELDOWN"
0x1e24 = "KEY_LAST"
0x1e25 = "KEY_OK"
0x1e29 = "KEY_BLUE"
0x1e2e = "KEY_GREEN"
0x1e30 = "KEY_PAUSE"
0x1e32 = "KEY_REWIND"
0x1e34 = "KEY_FASTFORWARD"
0x1e35 = "KEY_PLAY"
0x1e36 = "KEY_STOP"
0x1e37 = "KEY_RECORD"
0x1e38 = "KEY_YELLOW"
0x1e3b = "KEY_GOTO"
0x1e3d = "KEY_POWER"

# JSW additions
0x1e27 = "KEY_ENTER"