[mythtv-users] Foiled by lirc - yet again

[Phil Bridges]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It looks to me like you don't even need lirc running with this
>  >  "remote" - it appears to just be a wireless keyboard in remote control
>  >  form.  Have you tried updating the Mythtv key mappings to match the
>  >  remote and use it without launching lirc?
>
>  I think you might be right - which could be a good thing here. That
>  sounds better than getting lirc to work.
>
>  If you're right, there should be a keyboard event associated with
>  every key. I ran xev to see what the keys mapped to and got things
>  like this when I pressed a button labeled "Music".
>
>  KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x1800001,
>     root 0x138, subw 0x0, time 3856855035, (-198,132), root:(127,546),
>     state 0x0, keycode 58 (keysym 0x6d, m), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (6d) "m"
>     XFilterEvent returns: False
>
>  If I understand this correctly, this means that pressing the "Music"
>  button should be the same as pressing "m" on the keyboard. But when I
>  do that in mythfrontend I don't get any response from the "Music"
>  button. Oddly, other buttons do seem to work in mythfrontend - such as
>  "->" which acts the same as pressing right arrow on the keyboard. How
>  come the inconsistent behaviour here and how do I make it bend to my
>  will?
>

That's because "M" brings up the menu, which won't really do anything
from the main Myth menu.  Are you running 0.21?  Have you installed
MythControls?  If you have, you can go to MythWeb and update the
keymapping for your system.  Looks like it'll be a little bit of work,
but it would be worth it.