[mythtv-users] Twinhan VisionDTV Remote Control and USB dongle.

[Michael Cowell]

Michael Fox wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Michael Cowell <michael at mousewasher.dk> wrote:
>   
>> Jon Whitear wrote:
>>     
>>> Terry Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I'm trying to get lircd configured for use with a Twinhan VisionDTV
>>>> remote control and it's accompanying USB dongle. I'm having a little bit
>>>> of difficulty making it all hang together.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> The USB dongle shows up as a Human Interface Device (HID) - in this
>>> case, a keyboard. There's no need to use lirc (and I don't think lirc
>>> supports USB HIDs.) Just map the remote keys to the appropriate
>>> functions in Myth. Having said that, I never could get the key
>>> mappings set up satisfactorily, so I made a serial IR receiver, and
>>> used lirc with that.
>>>       
>> I managed to get mine working ok. xev was a BIG help.
>>
>>     
>
> Got any tips? Better still are you able to dump your tables with the
> mappings of keys all done?
>
> I managed to get most of it working but still had some issues with a few keys.
>   
I can't access my mythtv box at the moment so I can't provide a dump,
sorry. The only key that I couldn't get to work was the power key,
because I think it sent ctrl+alt+Fn, or something like that, which made
X unhappy. I wrote up a little table using xev and pressing every
button, then used mythweb to set appropriate keys using the table that I
made. Worked fine - except that it was impossible to use a regular
keyboard on that frontend from then on.

Michael