<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Kirk Bocek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t004@kbocek.com" target="_blank">t004@kbocek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 1/21/2016 11:39 AM, Jerry wrote:<br>
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You get the FLIRC, a small USB dongle.<br>
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Dongle comes with it?<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is the dongle. It's one piece. It is about an inch and a half long and stubby, like a small USB drive. That's the only thing you get.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
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A big on screen keyboard pops up. You make a virtual keyboard<br>
combination for each separate command you want to perform in Mythtv.<br>
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I'm used to getting the remote configured and tested with IRW *before* I<br>
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You can use <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings</a> to use the default<br>
keybindings, using the simple set of commands and expanding to add the<br>
other commands to suit you.<br>
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And then map the remote presses to the keybindings to operate Myth. I am<br>
familiar how to do this under LIRC. I just want to know how you do it<br>
with FLIRC.<span class=""><br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Er... how you do it is with the FLIRC software, that's it. You just click the keyboard buttons on the screen to program the FLIRC. Just clicks of the mouse. It's not at all complicated. Get a kid to do it for you -- throw him a quarter. :) But you have to use the keys you have mapped or the default ones that Mythtv usually uses. The FLIRC needs to know what keys to hit. The software is so easy to use -- there are not many options. Clickety-click done.<br><br></div><div>I'm not sure how to make that any clearer. Go to the FLIRC website. Download the software at <a href="https://flirc.tv/downloads">https://flirc.tv/downloads</a> and try it out. It's self-explanatory. It works without the FLIRC at least enough for you to see what it will do. Again, I'm trying to explain this as best I can without flogging a dead horse. I don't work for FLIRC but I think they have a nice product.<br><br></div><div>The thing is, you're going to be faced with a static remote mapping. So LEFT will always be A, and RIGHT will always be D. Or whatever. If you change programs on your machine, you'll have the same mapping. It's certainly not practical for you to unplug your FLIRC, load another configuration, and plug it back in. So if your new program needs new keys... you get the idea. But maybe you could program that new program to match the first program that called it. Whew! I haven't tried this -- my FLIRC machine doesn't do anything that complicated.<br><br></div><div>There is also no irexec like LIRC has. You can't hit a key on your remote and launch a shell script of your choosing. I'm fairly certain that the key presses are limited to regular key presses and not CTRL-X, '/usr/bin/myscript.sh' or what have you. So there will be that limitation.<br></div><div><br>If you can get LIRC working, that's really your best bet. You don't have to pay for that, and it will do everything you need to do. That's sometimes a lot harder with a great reward if you get there.<br><br></div><div>Anyway, fire away with any more FLIRC questions you have. I think that's most of it.<br><br></div><div>Jerry<br></div></div></div></div>