[mythtv-users] Nova-t remote with linux 2.6

[Paul Woodward]

You need to reduce your keyboard repeat speed to fix that problem. I believe I have the myth-friendly budget-ci.cpp code at home if you can't find it in the archives.
Paul

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Howells [mailto:mark.howells at gmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 09:50 AM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Nova-t remote with linux 2.6
>
>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:19:59 +0200, Kalle Pokki <kalle.pokki at iki.fi> wrote: 
>> Mark Howells wrote: 
>> 
>> >I'll see if the budget* drivers have been updated from those I'm 
>> >using. I was hoping not to use the lircd in favour of mapping remote 
>> >commands to the event0 interface. 
>> > 
>> 
>> With the old nova-t I think the infrared support should have been there 
>> for some time now, but of course you can always still try updating. 
> 
>That was my understanding too. 
> 
>> I'm a little confused how you are then going to use the event interface 
>> if you don't use lircd. I'm not that familiar with the workings of the 
>> input layer, but anyway lircd uses the event interface and then maps the 
>> remote buttons into keys the application understands. Were you just 
>> going to use the remote as a second "keyboard" or something like that? 
>> But in this case the characters coming from the input layer are probably 
>> not the ones the application wants to see. 
> 
>You're correct, but there are a number of published patches that map 
>the remote to chars suitable for mythtv and mythtv is the only app. I 
>have on this pc that will use a remote. 
> 
>However, I'm confused as to what I'm seeing. When I press the '1' 
>button on the remote the active terminal window receives a string of 
>four characters "1111". However, evtest doesn't see any events at all 
>on event0. How can this be? 
>Also, pressing keys other than 0-9 doesn't cause any events at event0 
>either - so even using lirc I'd be know better off at the moment... :( 
> 
>Mark 
>

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