[mythtv-users] holtek keyboard mappings not recognised

[Mike de Plume]

On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 23:10 +0100, Mike de Plume wrote:
> I have a box that comes with a IR interface that reports itself as a
> HOLTEK keyboard. Not a problem - I read the wiki entry
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Generic_HID_%22MCE%22_Remotes and created a
> setxxkbmap as described. 
> 
> I remap a number of keys, but, as an example, I want to remap the rewind
> key from Ctrl-Alt-B to '<'
> 
> I run the resulting command file and use 'xev' to see what is coming
> through from the remote and it works pretty much as expected. I still
> get the Ctrl and Alt, but the basic character code is what I want.
> 
> I go into Mythfrontend (MythTV 0.25) and try to set the sticky fast
> forward key. Pressing the remote rewind key produces Ctrl-Alt-B instead
> of the remapped value.
> 
> Just to be sure, I dig around (Mythubuntu) and make sure that my
> remapping command file is executed automatically on startup.
> 
> Same problem.
> 
> How do I get the frontend to recognise the new mapping? 
> 
> or
> 
> Why does the frontend see the default mapping instead of the device
> specific one that xenv clearly sees?
> 

Update to this. I tried a separate keylogger (pykeylogger) and this also
shows the same problem (the mapping I set is ignored). So, probably not
a MythTV problem.

Any clues to further action welcome, but I accept that this is probably
not the right forum.

Cheers

Mike S.