[linux-dvb] Re: Avermedia DVB-T 771 remote. First signs of life!

[Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 11:49:00AM +0100, Mike Ryan wrote:
> There's a whole guide to Universal Remotes and MythTV here:
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/remotes.php
> 
> Also, have a look at the lirc section of the MythTV installation guide:
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#lirc
> 
> Generally, you need to map the IR codes to events. Here's an example config
> file:
> http://www.litwiller.net/mythtv/lircd.conf.txt

Thats all about lirc, thats not the only way to get the IR input ...

If you *don't* use lirc the IR events will arrive as normal key press
events for the linux console (and partly also as X key events when you
run X11), so you probably can control mythtv that way as well.

mythtv also could get the events directly by reading them from the
/dev/input/event<x> device without lircd inbetween as dispatcher.  As
mythtv is designed as set-top-box like software it is the only
application using the IR anyway, so there is no real need for lircd.
Don't know whenever they have implemented that through ...

  Gerd

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