[vdr] Re: Reference RC (was DXR3 support patch for vdr-1.1.5)

[Dariush Forouher <dariush@forouher.de>]

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 10:54, Andreas Lange wrote:
> Please keep in mind that many lirc users have a configuration where one
> physical remote button is used for several different programs.
> 
> For example in my setup the remote-button labelled "Play/Pause" does
> a play/pause for xmms or mplayer or is vdr's red button or starts/quits 
> xawtv
> depending on the lirc mode I have switched to.
> 
> The current unpatched vdr would now just detect a red button press
> whenever it is pressed, so if for example I pause mplayer then at the 
> same time
> vdr stops recording. To work around that I would have to assign keys
> exclusively to vdr and have only a few left for the other programs using 
> lirc.
> 
> With just the learning procedure you describe these problems would
> continue and working around them is imho more difficult than configuring
> lirc.
> 
> Maybe a solution could be to check if the user has set up a $HOME/.lircrc
> and then use it, but if it's not there simply assume vdr is the only program
> listening to lircd and do what you describe above.
The interesting part of .lircrc is that you can define several modes
which can be changed by pressing different buttons. What about a lock
key in vdr that let vdr ignore all pressed buttons until the key is
pressed another time?

ciao
Dariush
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