[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

Larry K lunchtimelarry at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 23:36:00 UTC 2012


On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > In the absence of lirc, how can I tell what keystrokes are being
> >> > received on
> >> > my MCE USB IR receiver?  For lirc, I use irw to determine this.
> >>
> >> Use ir-keytable -t in place of irw.
> >
> >
> > Fair enough.  So then, if ir-keytable indicates that Key_xyx was
> received,
> > how do I map that to a particular myth command?
>
> The same way you configure your keyboard.  You go into "edit keys" in
> mythtv setup, find the myth command you want, then push the button on
> your remote to establish the mapping.
>

OK.  Since I've always used LIRC to control myth (I think I started with
0.18), I have never had occasion to fool around with editing keys in this
manner.  Good to know.


>
> Eric
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