[mythtv-users] [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6365: LIRC Remote Presses Are All Converted To Upper Case Characters

[btsglw]

2009/3/20 nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com>:
>> Just to close this out, as Rob Smith mentioned on the original (-dev)
>> thread, there are instructions at
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote#MCE_Keyboard .  Specifically, to get
>> the keyboard working properly, follow the link to
>> http://mod-mce.sourceforge.net/ .
>
> Can someone confirm that these instructions do not just apply to the
> MCE Keyboard - I am a bit confused on how this applies to my situation
> as I do not have a keyboard to get working.
>
> I want to get a remote which has a keyboard on it to be treated as a
> keyboard and not a LIRC device?
>
> TIA

If you just want to use the keyboard within mythtv to access the
shortcuts then all you need is lirc and the correctly configured
lircrc and lircd.conf files
(http://www.nexusuk.org/projects/mythtv/lirc/ -  links to his files
are in the last paragraph on that page).

However, if you want to use the keyboard part outside of mythtv (i.e.
in a terminal or web browser) then you'll need kbdd
(http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/kbdd). The latter is a
user-space keyboard daemon that can interface with lirc. There isn't a
lot of info out there but I did have this working okish on an older
kernel. Haven't tried it in a while since I was using this with my
minimyth kitchen frontend and I had to repurpose that install to
replace my firewall due to a psu failure.

HTH

Ver