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On 10/11/10 05:58, Bob Burgess wrote:
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<div>I've recently installed MythTV onto a system running Ubuntu
10.4. I then purchased a Windows Media Center remote. It was a very
generic cheap one, as I only bought it for the IR receiver, I'm using a
Logitech Harmony Remote and it's learnt the commands from the cheap
remote. I was trying to install LIRC as per the instructions, but I
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<div>lircd: can't open or create /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid</div>
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You need to create the /var/run/lirc directory<br>
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<div>Whenever I tried to run it. irw also didn't work with a similar
problem. I then noticed that some commands on my remote were working
anyway. I have removed LIRC and sure enough the remote is still
working. It looks like the remote is simply being recognised as a
keyboard where each button on the remote is a keystroke, or a
combination of keystrokes. I then went into the MythTV frontend and
into the Edit Keys menu, and I can simply map the keystrokes coming in
from the remote to do whatever I want. I don't know how this works, but
it does.</div>
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<div>My remote does not seem to have a key that maps to the escape
key, so I mapped the backspace key to the "Escape" MythTV shortcut...
The problem is that this workaround works fine for browsing through the
menus, but won't work to stop watching TV or a Video. Whether I press
backspace on my keyboard or on my remote, it won't stop watching the
Video. The only way to stop watching was to press the Escape key on my
keyboard, which I left bound to the Escape shortcut. I even tried
unbinding the Escape key from the Escape shortcut, but that didn't
help. All that meant was that I wasn't able to stop watching the TV at
all. Is there some reason why binding the Backspace key to Escape
works for everything else, but not leaving Videos? Is there some way I
can work around this? Any help would be great.</div>
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The binding in mythtv is a bit messy, I think you can tell mythtv to
use a different key to escape (not part of mythcontrol) but tbh I don't
know where.<br>
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You can remap you keyboard (remote) using xbindkeys with xmacro
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KeyboardShortcuts</a>). I never tested it<br>
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Xavier<br>
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