[mythtv-users] Back/Exit (escape) not working from remote

[Jeffrey Orlin]

At 10:50 AM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Jeff wrote:
>
>>I have everything working except for one thing, I can't get
>>MythTV to recognize an <escape> from the remote control.
>>Testing with irw and ircat I get (for button presses):
>>    irw displays "Back/Exit" (hauppauge_pvr)
>>    ircat --config=/home/mythtv/.lircrc irxevent
>>     displays "Key Escape CurrentWindow"
>>Just pressing the button pastes a ` into my terminal window.
>>Nothing happens when I'm running mythfrontend. If I press the
>>ESC key on the keyboard, I back up one level as I'd expect.
>>Everything else on the remote works fine.
>>This is with:
>>     2.4.23 kernel
>>     mythtv-0.13
>>     lirc-0.7.0pre2 (patched with the i2c 2.8.0 patch)
>>     PVR-250 card (grey remote)
>>I'm not using Myth built-in lirc support at the moment. I tried that
>>first but I couldn't get the remote to work at all without irxevent. I'm
>>rebuilding again with lirc support enabled.
>
>I just got Escape working last night with irxevent.  Here is the relevant 
>piece of my config:
>
>~mythtv/.lircrc:
># Escape/Exit/Back
>begin
>prog = irxevent
>button = Phone
>config = Key Escape CurrentWindow
>end

Thanks for all the suggestions. My .lircrc does contain something
similar to the above, using "Back/Exit" instead of "Phone".

I never did get mythfrontend to recognize an escape via irxevent.

I did finally get native Lirc support working. I had an older lirc library
in /usr/lib which was obscuring the one in /usr/local/lib from my
build. Mythfrontend processes the escapes just fine now.