[vdr] Re: Remote Control over USB

["Ray Glendenning" <ray.glendenning@hackery.demon.co.uk>]

Hi

You do not have to make a device into an HID device (like a keyboard, mouse,
or joystick) to be able to write a linux input driver for it.  The logic and
translation/mapping could be done within the driver if the firmware passes
raw data.

Cheers
Ray

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Schmidt" <sschmidt@physik.hu-berlin.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Remote Control over USB


>
> > I'm no programmer, too. But I think writing some kind of driver is no
> > good idea. It would be better to add a Input-device class to the
> > firmware. That way the remote would be handled like a USB-keyboard by
> > the generic input-device module in linux (which is used by the
> > remote-control plugin from Oliver Endriss as the Siemens/Hauppauge
> > DVB-S cards use the input-device for their remote-hardware).
> >
> > That way a generic solution would be used also capable of other jobs
> > than VDR.
> >
> > Rene
> >
> Yes, that is what Igor himself also says. The problem for now is that
> there exist no such class in the firmware so that it is not
> possible to do that. We have to wait for Igor or maybe somone is able to
> fiddle around with the firm. I'm definitly not.
>
> But anyway, i think its worth to think about such solutions in times
> where MoBo's will loose their legacy ports.
>
> Stephan
>
>
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