[mythtv-users] Cheap Remote and blaster

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Tue Nov 2 01:27:00 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:57 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> The only important thing is that it is recognized (noted by printing
>> "Pictures" next to it) by lirc.  No changes needed.
>
> Ok, so even though it's showing a different code, it's showing Pictures, and that's the key?

Yep.

>>> So, do you mean that what is in there should work by default?
>>>
>> Yep.  Unless you have a special remote, I believe all the mce
>> transceiver buttons are all mapped.  You should not need to change the
>> lircd.conf file at all..  Just the .lircrc to suit your tastes (and I
>> even find that the defaults are mostly suitable).
>
> It's not special that I know of, others have told me it's just a MCE remote. It was suggested in this list so I bought it but it's buttons don't control everything. For example, when I press the Pictures, I would have thought the media library/images screen would be displayed but nothing happens or changes.

Jump points need to be configured for things like this.  To my
knowledge there are none by default, but they are simple to setup.
Once this is done, you can map all of the unused keys to single
keypresses or custom jump point routines, etc...

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Jump_points

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