[mythtv-users] LIRC v ir-keytable -- Remote Control

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>  But it seems that the IR capability may only be
> for its four "IR learning keys".  All  the other keys may well only
> transmit via RF, and will only be able to be mapped to one keycode.
> That will cause you serious problems with the different key mappings
> required for different programs, but should be fine for just running
> MythTV.

If the RF interface presents itself as a keyboard instead of an IR
device, that doesn't mean you can't use LIRC and still get all of its
program dependent key mapping by using LIRC's devinput driver.

http://lirc.org/html/devinput.html

You can use any keyboard as an LIRC device using devinput and map keys
accordingly.

Eric