[mythtv-users] Programming remote button bindings (WAS: What major features are planned for 0.27?)

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Nov 28 20:14:22 UTC 2012


On 11/28/2012 02:15 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:39:09PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 11/28/2012 01:20 PM, Mark Greenwood wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 28 Nov 2012 12:32:09 Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>> FWIW, the defaults for volume in MythTV are:
> [deletia]
>
>> Which helps with just a few "normal" multimedia keys (i.e. those
>> that are also likely to exist on a multimedia keyboard).  It doesn't
>> help at all for all the other remote buttons, as above.
>      That's also a simple enough case that you could just standardize
> the button names in the lirc configuration files. Your distribution
> can manage these and you would never know know anything was "fixed"
> unless you've got a legacy setup.

Yeah, LIRC has already moved to a standard LIRC namespace.  Still for 
anything more than simple media players (i.e. for MythTV as opposed to 
MPlayer or xine), without knowing exactly which buttons (and how many) 
are available on a remote, finding the appropriate mapping of those 
buttons is impossible--which is why you will need per-remote 
configurations for MythTV (whether they be ~/.lircrc or MythTV key 
bindings themes).

Mike


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