[mythtv-users] Fedora 14 & Hauppauge (Grey) & lirc devinput with Nova-T
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Feb 18 16:18:00 UTC 2011
On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Harry Lists wrote:
>
>>>> P. S. I just took a look at ir-kbd-i2c.c and it looks like remotes
>>>> other than the Hauppauge black/silver/grey remotes are ignored. If
>>>> this is true then I guess it cannot possibly work with a
>>>> non-Hauppauge remote unless I compile a modified version.
>>>
>>> Yeah, I suspect that's probably the issue here. ir-kbd-i2c would need
>>> to allow non-Hauppauge signals through (we could add a knob to the
>>> driver to allow that), and you'd need a custom keymap to map those
>>> signals to input codes.
...
>> I am not skilled
>> enough to add a toggle to ir-kbd-i2c to allow non-Hauppauge remotes, but
>> I'll try commenting out the offending code and compiling a custom
>> version to test feasibility. I'll report back when I get the chance
>> (probably this weekend).
>
> ...after bypassing the "is this a Hauppauge remote?" check, of course. :)
>
> If that works fine, I'm sure we can whip something up that could go into
> ir-kbd-i2c upstream.
Actually... This feature is already on tap for inclusion in the kernel:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/503791/
That's a follow-up to a 13-part patchset Mauro posted that cleans up a
number of keymaps, including all the Hauppauge ones.
--
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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