[vdr] Re: Remote receiver on 2. DVB card (NOVA)

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

On Saturday 22 November 2003 12:54, Joerg Schneide wrote:

> since I bought a 2. card (Hauppauge NOVA) I would like to use its remote control
> ( the new one with RC5-codes at adress 31) in parallel with my existing solution.
> 
> The existing config is a programmable RC wich used the receiver on the 1. card
> and the Remote-Plugin with the follwing parameters
> 
> REMOTE_PLUGIN_OPTS="-i /dev/input/event0"
> REMOTE_KEYMAP="-a 5 /mnt/hda1/vdr020/etc/vdr/haupneu1.rc5"
> 
> I tryed to use
> REMOTE_PLUGIN_OPTS="-i /dev/input/event0 -i /dev/input/event1"

Basically this is correct, but unfortunately...

> But it didn't work, when I use evtest with /dev/input/event1 it says
> "no such device"
> 
> How to enable the 2. receiver as /dev/input/event1?

...the 'DVB' driver does *not* support the remote control receiver
of the nova. This receiver is supported by the 'dvb-kernel' driver only.
 
> If this would be too complicated (I am using the "MLD" binary distribution,
> and I dont want to compile the stuff myself, but I can easily edit all the
> configs and script files in it), would it be possible to use a second
> Keymap on the one working /dev/input/event with a different (RC5-)adress
> like the following ones?:
> 
> REMOTE_KEYMAP="-a 5 /mnt/hda1/vdr020/etc/vdr/haupneu1.rc5"
> REMOTE_KEYMAP="-a 31 /mnt/hda1/vdr020/etc/vdr/hauppauge.rc5"
> 
> I tryed to combine this parameters but with no effect.

This does not work either. You can load one keymap only.
(Someone posted a patch where two address bits were mangled into the
keymap, but the patch requires to recompile the driver, too.)

Sorry, if you can't compile drivers there is no solution.

Oliver


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