[mythtv] [Patch] Support for remote control multimedia buttons(without lirc or xmodmap)

[Thomas M. Pluth]

Can you point me to a good site for setting up evdev?  I have a gyration
wireless keyboard / mouse package and an ATI RF remote I'd like to use with
myth.   I rebuilt my kernel with evdev support and put your patch into myth,
but I don't see anything happening.  Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom 

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Micah F. Galizia
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 7:11 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: [mythtv] [Patch] Support for remote control multimedia
buttons(without lirc or xmodmap)

Hello again,

First and formost, I appologize for this long-winded message, but
please, read on.

I sent off a patch adding (minimal) support for the Linux input layer
earlier this week.  I didn't get much of a response, so I developed it
further and cleaned it up.

Using this patch, mythtv listens to the Linux input layer devices listed
(by name) in the ~/.mythtv/evdevrc (a sample is also attached) directly.
It also allows the use of symbolic names for the multimedia buttons,
such as "Play" and "FastForward" in the database (and with mythweb),
which eliminates the need for lirc or xmodmap.  The list of symbolic
names is in eventnames.cpp.

The patch requires the evdev kernel module and any device specific input
layer module (keyboard, mouse, ir keyboard, ati remote, etc) must also
be loaded.

"Out of the box" it will work for any existing keybindings (unless you
are using xmodmap), since the symbolic names used by QT and the kernel
input layer are the same for regular buttons.

If you are going to try the patch (please do, I think this will simplify
the user's setup and maintenance of mythtv), you will need to do the
following to make it work with devices on your computer:

- apply the patch and recompile (rerun qmake from the top level)
- add the names of the devices you want to use to the config file
(cat /proc/bus/input/devices for a list).
- get rid of any xmodmaps and stop lirc (I have not tested it with
lirc).

In the future, I would like to add input device configuration to
mythfrontend, but for now, key bindings have to be set using sql or
mythweb.  I should also note the following "bugs":
- devices cannot be removed and reattached to the system (I will add
support for this).
- I think that only the first key specified for each action works, I
will also fix this.

Thanks
-- 
Micah Galizia
mfgalizi at uwo.ca

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