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=== Technical Notes === | === Technical Notes === | ||
Revision as of 00:01, 28 August 2008
The Logitech diNovo Mini is a palm-sized keyboard directly targeted at Home Theater PC users. It is a bluetooth keyboard that incorporates a full QWERTY layout with a touch-pad mouse.
Media Buttons
The keyboard includes a row of extra buttons along the top, plus some alternate blue function buttons. At the time of writing (2008-08-22) these buttons are not natively supported under Mythbuntu Linux or MythTV. However it's possible to re-map these keys to something useful for MythTV using xmodmap.
The program xmodmap takes a plain text file of key-codes (determined with the xev program), and the keystroke this code should generate.
! DiNovo Mini Keyboard Mappings for MythTV ! ! Volume Down: keycode 174 XF86AudioLowerVolume ! Volume Up: keycode 176 XF86AudioRaiseVolume ! Mute: keycode 160 XF86AudioMute ! Record: keycode 177 XF86AudioRecord ! Skip Left: keycode 144 XF86AudioPrev ! Skip Right: keycode 153 XF86AudioNext ! Stop: keycode 164 XF86AudioStop ! Play/Pause: keycode 162 XF86AudioPlay ! Back: keycode 22 ?? Backspace ! -------------------------- ! Music: keycode 129 XF86Music ! Browser: keycode 178 XF86WWW ! Power: keycode 223 XF86Sleep ! keycode 174 = F10 keycode 176 = F11 keycode 160 = F9 keycode 177 = R keycode 144 = Left keycode 153 = Right keycode 164 = Escape keycode 162 = P keycode 129 = XF86Music keycode 178 = XF86WWW keycode 223 = XF86Sleep
(Note: The blue alt-keys (Music, Browser, Power) are not mapped to anything useful in MythTV, this is left as an exercise for the reader!)
Save the above to a file named .Xmodmap (or anything else, it doesn't matter). To bring the above functions up immediately enter:
xmodmap /home/mythtv/.Xmodmap
Now you need to make sure the above will come up each time the MythTV system is rebooted. This is system dependent, but basically whenever mythfrontend is about to start xmodmap should be run.
Follow this link to make mouse pad work [1]
Technical Notes
- At the time of writing (2008-08-22), the USB bluetooth adapter supplied with the keyboard does not work "out of the box" with Linux. Keyboard functionality works correctly, but the trackpad-mouse does not function. Using an alternate bluetooth adapter will solve this problem.
- Currently the author is having bluetooth stability problems with this keyboard (using an alternate bluetooth dongle) - Sometimes it will work for 3 days straight, other times it cannot keep the bluetooth link up for an hour. The MytvTV box must be power-cycled to re-establish the connection. Thus this page should not be seen as an endorsement of the product. Please do your own research before purchasing, as these sort of "teething-problems" are often solved rapidly by the Open Source Community (the author certainly hopes so).
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