[mythtv-users] Web-based universal remote control

[bdillahu at peachbush.com]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:42:07PM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 12:49, Rich wrote:
> > Folks,
> > I was thinking of creating a web-based universal
> > remote for MythTV and all my other entertainment
> > devices. There would be 2 parts.
> >
> > One that would call LIRC to drive my IR
> > transmitter(control devices). That seems easy enough(I
> > can use php exec to call 'RC SEND_ONCE DEVICE
> > COMMAND').
> >
> > The second part is what I'm not sure about how to
> > implement. I want to send a keypress to the local
> > x-window so that i can navigate through mythfrontend.
> > Does anyone know how to do this?
> 
> Well, what if you used Myth's native LIRC support, but instead of using 
> /dev/lirc you used a FIFO that you created.  The /dev/lirc is a 
> character (ascii) device IIRC, so you could just have your web app 
> write remote key names to the FIFO, where mythfrontend would pick them 
> up and process them according to your .lircrc.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 

I'm in to try to help with this, if somebody goes that direction... I could
really use the functionality, especially the drop it straight into a FIFO
type...

Bruce