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

[Andreas Lange <andreas.lange@chemie.uni-regensburg.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

>
>Maybe I should just do both. If VDR does the lircd.conf thing, it would (if I understand
>this correctly) "know" whether the current command is meant for VDR, and using
>a keys-lirc.conf (and VDR's "Learning keys..." procedure) would make the LIRC
>key definitions independent from VDR's key names. Or would the lircd.conf thing
>make a keys-lirc.conf completely obsolete?
>
>Klaus
>  
>

I think you are confusing the lirc daemon's lircd.conf with the user's 
~/.lircrc.
The lircd.conf contains the information for the lirc daemon what
ir pulse should be assigned to what key, for example
"0x0000000000064D93" would be the key "DOWN".

What a program that uses lirc does with that information is normally read
from .lircrc configured by the indiviual user. That makes it possible to
define modes in which only one program responds to a button and if the
mode is changed, another program gets the input. So a keys-lirc.conf would
not be necessary as the .lircrc contains the information that the button 
"DOWN"
is "Down" for vdr or seeking forward for mplayer and so on.

That means of course the user has to configure that file to use it with vdr
just like he has to configure it for any other program like mplayer, 
xmms, etc.
But for people who only use vdr a keys-lirc.conf could be useful.

Andreas