[mythtv-users] Cheap Remote and blaster

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 00:00:28 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> Trying to do as suggested in the thread, mapping of remote to lircd.conf file.
>>
>> Looking at the file, for example,
>>
>>       Pictures        0x00007bb6
>>
>> When I press the Pictures button on my MCE remote, I get;
>>
>> 000000037ff07bb6 01 Pictures mceusb
>>
>> I tried changing the above code with the one generated when I press Pictures on the remote but that just broke the remote altogether.
>> So, am I supposed to change these codes somewhere else perhaps?
>>
>> This
>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-8.html
>> seems to imply that I do enter the full code I generate when pressing the corresponding button.
>>
>> Can someone enlighten me on this.
>
> The entries in lircd.conf are all of the buttons that will be
> recognized by lirc from your remote.  Your .lircrc file for mythtv
> maps those existing entries into (usually keyboard) mappings that
> mythtv uses.  You can make mythtv do a lot of things by assigning a
> single press, script, mu;tiple presses, etc in the mythtv .lircrc
> file.  You should never need to add to your lircd.conf - UNLESS with
> irw you do not get a mapping.  In your example:
>
>
>> 000000037ff07bb6 01 Pictures mceusb
>
> It is saying that your .lircrc has a "mceusb" entry in it and the
> keypress matched the "Pictures" entry from your lircd.conf file.  Now,
> you can go to your .lircrc file, find the entry for Pictures (if it
> exists) and make that button do whatever you like in mythtv.

Sorry - confusing myself - you can also have multiple remote entries
in both files.  That line is what matched first..

> hth
>


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