[mythtv-users] 0.25 Remote setup

[Dave Badia]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> Specifically a setting (and the supporting code) that allowed you to run a
> script on every LIRC button event received by MythTV.
>
> Way more detail than you wanted:
>
> The implementation meant that the script would be executed for every single
> button on your remote that was mapped to MythTV, and the same script would
> be executed for every single button, and the script execution would be
> repeated when you held down, say, the volume button (for each separate
> button repeat sent by LIRC), and it only worked with LIRC button presses (so
> no audio feedback when using a keyboard to initiate an action).
>
> So, to make it somewhat useful, you had to write a very complex script that
> knew what to do for each button press and when to ignore button
> presses/repeats and when to apply a delay before repeats and ... basically,
> you had to re-implement irexec in your script.  So I just cut out the middle
> man and now you can use irexec--the LIRC program that was specifically
> written to run a script on a button press.
>
> Note, also, that irexec is /not/ irxevent (which is likely what you're
> thinking of).  It does not send an X key press to an app (as does irxevent),
> it executes a script on a button press (but with full support for per-button
> mapping, repeat, delay, ...).
>
> AFAIR, the setting was originally added as a hack to allow playing an audio
> sample on button presses for audio feedback, but its implementation was so
> primitive that it was useless for that purpose, so I doubt many have ever
> used it (and that anyone who has used it kept it enabled for more than a few
> minutes--I tested it before removing it and was extremely annoyed withing
> 30s).  Using irexec has only benefits and no downsides--once you figure out
> how you can take your mythtv config in lircrc and use global search/replace
> to morph it into an irexec config that works exactly like the legacy MythTV
> setting--and then can start to customize it to make, for example, different
> buttons play different audio files (be-boop for fast-forward and boop-be for
> rewind and no audio feedback for toggle), use different LIRC repeat and
> delay settings (which needn't be tied to the settings used by MythTV), ...
>
> If anyone wants real support in MythTV for audio feedback on actions, they
> need to do a proper implementation that does not use a hack (such as
> spawning a new process for each beep through a system call to a script--it
> needs to use MythTV's built-in audio support), that is not hardware specific
> (i.e. works the same for all actions, whether received via keyboard, LIRC,
> network control, ...), and that allows proper customization (likely through
> some sort of audio theme).
>
> Mike
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I know this is an old thread but in prep for .25 I have to ask....

I recently setup a bluetooth remote and am using this functionality in
24-fixes to execute a script on certain keypresses.  I couldn't use
irexec since the bluetooth remote is going through the uinput module.
Since this feature is removed in .25, is there some other way to get
irexec like functionality for a normal key press event?

Thanks
Dave