[mythtv-users] Getting Irwatch.pl to work

Steve Wilson mythtv_arizona at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 14 16:44:15 UTC 2008


--- Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Steve Wilson
> <mythtv_arizona at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  I fast forwarded an hour show to the end then
> when I
> >  tried to skip to the beginning of the show
> nothing
> >  happened.
> >
> >         #skip to the beginning if the user holds
> down
> >  skipback
> >         if(isButton([$haup, 'page-down', 1],
> [$tivo,
> >  'skipback', 1]) && inPlayback())
> >         {
> >                 sendMythCommand('play seek
> beginning');
> >                 next;
> >         };
> >
> >  I assume I had to change the '' next to the $haup
> to
> >  an actual button that was in my .lircr file which
> I
> >  did with the page down button which is called
> >  button=page-down in the lircr file.
> 
> No, you don't want to use the value mapped in
> .lircrc, but rather the
> value specified in lircd.conf. If you are unsure,
> the easiest way is
> to open a shell, run the irw command, press the
> button on the remote
> you want, and the name of that button will be
> printed on the command
> line (along with the name of the remote and some
> other info).
> 
> Also, since the skip to end feature (among other
> features in irwatch)
> uses the network control port, you will have to make
> sure it's been
> turned on in mythfrontend (default is for it to be
> turned off) and
> that it's its on the expected port (default is
> 6546...if you want it
> on a different port, you will need to update the
> corresponding code in
> irwatch.pl).
> 
> 
> >  Also, I assume I had to change this to the name
> of my
> >  remote that is specified in the lirc.conf file.
> >
> >  my $haup = lc('Motorola_DRC200');
> >
> >  I don't have a name specified in my .lircr file.
> I
> >  only have one remote so I left the $tive variable
> as
> >  is.
> 
> yes, that is the correct thing to do. If you have
> multiple remotes you
> want to use, it may be more meaningful to change the
> variable names to
> match your remote names. The variables $haup and
> $tivo are just named
> that because they represent my Hauppauge remote and
> my TiVo remote.
> But it may be best if you get things working before
> you start changing
> those (and possibly miss something).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ron
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Thanks, I didn't have the network remote port turned
on. Once I did this it works without issue. Thanks for
the nice feature.


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