[linux-dvb] [Fwd: Re: Re: NOVA-t remote control]

[Ed Wildgoose <ed@wildgooses.com>]

Sorry Jon,

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Ed Wildgoose <ed@wildgooses.com>
> To: Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>
> 
> On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 12:32, Jon Burgess wrote:
> > Julian Tibble wrote:
> > 
> > > As far as I can tell, av7110_ir.c is part of the driver for "fully featured"
> > > cards, and budget-ci.c is for cards with a common interface connection for
> > > pay-per-view.  Neither of these apply to me (as far as I know), so can
> > > I use the remote control?
> > 
> > The budget-ci is actually for budget cards with IR input, it confused me 
> > for a while as well.
> > 
> > My new budget card has an IR connector, but it wasn't initally working 
> > with the budget-ci driver. Moving the PCI ID from the budget to 
> > budget-ci driver was all that was required to get the remote recognised. 
> > Try the patch attached and see if it helps.
> > 
> > I also needed to tweak the mapping table as well to get all the keys 
> > recognised correctly, but I don't have that code in front of me right now.
> 
> Interesting.  Applied the patch, but trying to insmod it then fails with
> "./budget-ci.o: init_module: No such device"
> 
> However, curiously enough I already had loaded the driver:
> dvb-ttpci-budget-ci
> 
> And this does in fact seem to be picking up my remote and there is a
> /dev/input/event1 which is squirting stuff back at me.
> 
> Unfortunately just like with the DVB driver patch, I can't seem to get
> it to detect several keys such as the "red" key, and the bottom left
> "prev track" key.  Nothing comes back, and some basic hacking of the
> driver tends to suggest that some of these keys must be being
> transmitted in a peculiar way?
> 
> I would be interested to know if a) you get your remote detected by the
> same driver? b) whether you know how to get these other keys working?
> 
> As an aside, I have a couple of other remotes such as a "CoolCommand"
> remote which came with a Winfast TV2000 card, and this has a very
> similar type of receiver (which plugs in the back of the winfast card). 
> Is it possible to get this detected by this driver, and if so what is
> the basic process to go about reverse engineering the codes which are
> sent to the card (I could perhaps do with a pointer to a 101 on how the
> IR receiver code works?)
> 
> Thanks so much
> 
> Ed W
> 



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