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The SilverstoneTek LC16M

Contents 1 Drivers 1.1 LIRC 1.1.1 Click Wheel 1.2 VFD 2 Front Media Buttons 3 Front Power Button

Drivers

WARNING! There is now a currently unsupported version of this case going around with usbid 15c2:0036, although the remote appears to be detected as a usbhid device the VFD is non functional There are now Experimental Patches standalone VFD Remote & VFD

LIRC

Versions 0.7 and 0.8.1 of LIRC have included a working driver for the iMON_PAD remote control used in most of the Silverstone cases. It is listed under the USB remote controls. In order to use the "PAD Controller", a pressure sensitive mouse cursor control, as a directional pad use the patch from here under the first section entitled lirc-imon-pad2keys.patch. He also provides a sample lircd.conf with all 58 keys of the iMON_PAD. Version 0.8.1 does not require the 2.6.16 patch he has listed as the changes should already be made.

Click Wheel

The case has a front click wheel which is integrated as part of the iMON setup. In order to use the wheel, make sure you have the remote control working properly and add the following to you lircd.conf file,

begin remote

  name  ClickWheel
  bits           24
  eps            30
  aeps          100

  one             0     0
  zero            0     0
  post_data_bits  8
  post_data      0xFF
  gap          131993
  toggle_bit      0

      begin codes
          WheelCC                  0x010000
          WheelCW                  0x000100
          WheelClick               0x000008
          # alternate code, 0x000008 does not seem to work for me (SilverstoneTek LC16M silver), this one does:
          #WheelClick               0x000001
      end codes
end remote

VFD

The latest LCDproc driver as of 0.5.0 has support for the VFD display built in! Configure using ./configure --enable-drivers=imon

Front Media Buttons

The front buttons work as a keyboard and so need to be mapped using an .xmodmaprc file in the home directory of the user running X. For most this will be the mythtv user, so include this in your /home/mythtv/.xmodmaprc file (or create it if it doesn't exist), (note this is what I have, I don't need volume control, so you will have to change that part if you do.)

!Skip Back
keycode 144 = Left
!Skip Forward
keycode 153 = Right
!Stop
keycode 164 = Escape
!PlayPause
keycode 162 = Ctrl+P
!VolUp
keycode 176 = Up
!VolDn
keycode 174 = Down

Some help in customizing this file to your own needs can be had here.

Front Power Button

This is rather general, but since I've got this going for my setup I figure I'd put it here. Since MythTV lets you shutdown through the menu system I've changed the behavior of the front panel to kill mythfrontend as a crash/hang fix which will improve the "WAF/GAF". In reality what I have it do is kill Xorg, which will kill mythfrontend, mplayer, xine, etc. All in one swoop, in case any of them crash.

I run Debian, so this may be in a different location, or may be managed differently,

#!/bin/sh
# /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
# Kills MythTV frontend when the power putton has been
# pressed.

if `ps -A | grep -q 'mythfrontend'`
then
        while `ps -A | grep -q 'mythfrontend'`
        do
                echo "mythfrontend still running!"
                killall mythfrontend
                killall Xorg
                sleep 1
        done
fi