[mythtv-users] OT: two new remotes

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 00:43:35 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Mark Lord <mythtv at rtr.ca> wrote:
> On 12-03-20 06:03 AM, barry johnson wrote:
> ...
>> Sure, well you need to setup lirc to use multiple devices.  In this case two, one for the mouse and
>> the other for the keyboard.  If you cat /proc/bus/input devices, there both the Topspeed ones I
>> believe.
>>
>> http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html
>>
>> Better still, this is the remote with all the keycodes (which looks like it works automagically in
>> minimyth):
>>
>> http://www.minimyth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2029&hilit=giarc
>> <http://www.minimyth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2029&hilit=giarc>
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LIRC    Setup a HID device with LIRC - has some info on
>> multiple devices
>
>
> For those who prefer the extra complexity of getting a combo keyboard/mouse
> receiver to behave as a single remote control under LIRC,
> I've now copied those links above (thanks) to the tail end of my web page for others.
>
> The idea here though, was to have something dead simple to set up,
> without LIRC, without having to deal with arcane/undocumented kernel IR-decoding,
> and without having to fuss over the split personality (mouse/keyboard) of the receiver.
>
> Cheers


Cheers to you too, and thanks for 1.3

It will be good to have both options - for those who use the remote
for more than one program (eg xbmc ) lirc will be a good option.


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