[vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Jan Rieger wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:49 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"
> 
> > Jan Rieger wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Rene Bartsch" <ml@bartschnet.de>
> > > To: "VDR-ML" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:26 PM
> > > Subject: [vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"
> > >
> > > > Am Fre, 2003-08-15 um 22.06 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> > > > >
> > > > > I've started VDR with -P\"control
> > > > > -t/dev/tty8\" and I get a "Hello, foreign, Im the keyboard handler
> of
> > > > > VDR" and I see a OSD-line with channel-info, but then screen gets
> black
> > > > > and doesn't react on keyboard.
> > > >
> > > > I've found the reason. I didn't have a remote.conf. With an old one
> > > > copied in it works, but the control-plugin doesn't help on system
> > > > without DXR3 or DVB-X. So the plugin should support the teaching
> > > > funktion ...
> > >
> > > Since VDR doesn't support the teaching function over the cState
> > > mechanism, the plugin can't provide this kind of information without
> > > heavily patching VDR.
> > > The plugins "LCDproc" and "Graphic LCD" should have the same
> > > problem.
> >
> > If you want to implement a remote control that automatically goes
> > through the learning phase, you just need to derive it from cRemote.
> > There's no "heavy patching" necessary for this ,-)
> 
> Yes, that's clear. But I can't get and provide the messages that VDR
> shows during the learning process on the OSD, because this
> mechanism prints on the OSD directly instead of using cState.
> 
> Or is there an other way to get these messages?
> 
> Jan

Ah, I see. The learning process writes directly to the OSD.
But doesn't the user see the OSD at that time? I mean, he must
be able to see it in order to learn the other remote controls
like PC keys or LIRC?!

Klaus


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