[mythtv-users] Remotes, irxevent and menu navigation

[Joe Votour]

Isaac,

Perhaps I should clarify what I mean by "typical",
since I believe that I may have introduced the term. 
Most of the TV capture cards that I have seen,
including the PVR-250, have a remote control that
include only one set of arrow-type buttons, and these
are mapped to Ch+/- and Vol+/-.  My PVR-250 remote is
like that, my XBox remote is like that (I don't use
the XBox for MythTV though), the remote for the
Leadtek WinFast card is like that, as are others (many
Hauupauge cards).  I would imagine that most people
are using remotes that came with their capture cards.

I am willing to submit a patch, as long as there is
some consensus as to how the patch should handle
things - should I just reassign the keys that handle
left/right in all of the menus to the volume controls,
or should I just allow both sets of keys to work?  My
main concern is other modules and software that they
might interact with (mplayer, for example uses
Left/Right to FF/REW).  Of course, if none of this
can't be worked out, then I won't bother.

Now, I admit, I'm going to sound like I'm at work
here, but perhaps some sort of UI guidelines should be
set for MythTV.  That would define standard keys for
certain functions, new functions can be added as a
module needs them.

Out of curiosity, what kind of remote do you use,
Isaac?  I'm looking into being able to use a decent
universal remote control to get all of the buttons
that I need.

-- Joe


--- Isaac Richards <ijr at po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 08:31 pm, Julian Tibble
> wrote:
> > The problem is, who decided that RightArrow and
> LeftArrow
> > would be good for fastforward and rewind?!?!?!?!?!
> > Clearly they didn't have the typical remote
> control in mind.
> 
> The remote I use has separate arrow, volume, and
> channel keys.  There is no 
> such thing as a 'typical remote control'
> 
> > I think that in the long run, the best way of
> proceeding
> > would be to change the keys throughtout the whole
> of MythTV
> > so that there is more consistency between the
> typical remote
> > control, LiveTV mode, LiveTV Browse Mode, _all_
> the menus, etc.
> >
> > For me, that would mean that UpArrow and DownArrow
> are always
> > up/down (menus) or channelup/channeldown (tv), and
> Right/LeftArrow
> > are used for moving right/left (menus) or turning
> the volume up/down
> > (tv).  Of course, this would mean finding
> different keys for
> > fast-forward and rewind.
> 
> Sure, submit a patch.  I asked for people to do this
> back in, oh, 
> December/January.  Didn't happen then, I doubt it
> will happen now.
> 
> > Another huge annoyance is that the key for mute is
> "|".
> > On UK keyboards you have to type SHIFT-\ to
> produce this character.
> > Is it possible to have a single key for mute?
> >
> > This is means I can't get the Mute key working on
> my remote control!
> > (because my control produces events on
> /dev/input/event0 I just map
> > the keys to match mythtv, and avoid having to use
> lirc - this is
> > impossible with the mute key because I can't
> reproduce SHIFT-\)
> 
> You can't have it produce the keycode for |, then? 
> That's broken.
> 
> Isaac
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