2008-06-04, 17:14
Yeah, hi... First-time poster here, so be gentle.
I'm trying to put togeather a cheap-o HTPC machine, using spare parts I happened to have lying around and cheap hardware. Since my TV is far from HD, my needs are small.
Anyways, I've gotten myself an extremely cheap IR remote control using an USB dongle. I'm sure most of you know the type.
Now, the catch here is that it sends strange keyboard commands in stead of regular "media button" style keycodes. For instance, pressing play means "Ctrl-Shift-P".
I really, really want to use XBMC - I'm an old X-box modder myself and XBMC has and is everything I need - but I can't seem to find a way to remap stuff... I'm by no means a Linux newbie, but I haven't really had to deal with this kind of problem before.
I figure that I either need to get XBMC to recognize Ctrl, Alt and Shift-modkeys or find a way to remap, for instance, Ctrl-Shift-P to just regular P (or whatever), at least while XBMC runs.
Any pointers or ideas are very welcome.
I'm trying to put togeather a cheap-o HTPC machine, using spare parts I happened to have lying around and cheap hardware. Since my TV is far from HD, my needs are small.
Anyways, I've gotten myself an extremely cheap IR remote control using an USB dongle. I'm sure most of you know the type.
Now, the catch here is that it sends strange keyboard commands in stead of regular "media button" style keycodes. For instance, pressing play means "Ctrl-Shift-P".
I really, really want to use XBMC - I'm an old X-box modder myself and XBMC has and is everything I need - but I can't seem to find a way to remap stuff... I'm by no means a Linux newbie, but I haven't really had to deal with this kind of problem before.
I figure that I either need to get XBMC to recognize Ctrl, Alt and Shift-modkeys or find a way to remap, for instance, Ctrl-Shift-P to just regular P (or whatever), at least while XBMC runs.
Any pointers or ideas are very welcome.