[mythtv-users] [mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #6365: LIRC Remote Presses Are All Converted To Upper Case Characters

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/20/2009 03:56 PM, nospam312 wrote:
>> Just to close this out, as Rob Smith mentioned on the original (-dev)
>> thread, there are instructions at
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote#MCE_Keyboard .  Specifically, to get
>> the keyboard working properly, follow the link to
>> http://mod-mce.sourceforge.net/ .
>>     
> Can someone confirm that these instructions do not just apply to the
> MCE Keyboard - I am a bit confused on how this applies to my situation
> as I do not have a keyboard to get working.
>
> I want to get a remote which has a keyboard on it to be treated as a
> keyboard and not a LIRC device?

I think all that matters is that it's using the Windows MCE IR 
receiver.  It's theoretically possible (though not probable) that the 
keycodes may differ on your remote, but even if so, it would be rather 
simple to modify the keycodes in the source.

Mike