2013-04-13, 23:08
The other day I finally got around to recording my remote control into lirc (irrecord).
I got the remote working and things like irw work:
I also found a Lircmap.xml that seems to be working, a little snippet:
Before I got this all working I just used a usb ir-receiver that translated the remote into regular keyboard strokes. That to worked fairly well, but rendered me unable to configure which key does what. Also quite alot of keys had no useful binding at all, so I like the new solution better.
One little annoyance though is that the OK-button used to simulate the enter key of the keyboard, giving me an easy way to access the OSD while playing videos. The 'select' action on the other hand, works fine to select things in the menus, but during playback it changes the video resolution instead of bringing up the OSD.
A similar change happened to the BACK-button. It used to simulate the escape key, which would get me back to the menu if pushed during playback. Now all it does is rewind the current video.
Are there better suited actions I can bind to in Lircmap.xml to get the old behaviours back?
EDIT:
I have tried reading https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...slator.cpp, it is non-trivial.
How I installed: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996
My hardware: http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-nano-ad10.html
EDIT2:
The changed behaviour of the back button was not that big of a deal once I figured out that I can just use the 'stop'-button instead.
The lack of OSD during videoplayback however is still cumbersome.
I got the remote working and things like irw work:
Code:
$ irw
000000037fcb7ba3 00 KEY_OK zotac.conf
000000037fcb7ba3 00 KEY_OK zotac.conf
000000037fcb7ba3 01 KEY_OK zotac.conf
000000037fcb7b7c 00 KEY_BACK zotac.conf
000000037fcb7b7c 01 KEY_BACK zotac.confI also found a Lircmap.xml that seems to be working, a little snippet:
Code:
<lircmap>
<remote device="zotac.conf">
[...]
<select>KEY_OK</select>
[...]
<back>KEY_BACK</back>
[...]
<enter>KEY_ENTER</enter>
</remote>
</lircmap>Before I got this all working I just used a usb ir-receiver that translated the remote into regular keyboard strokes. That to worked fairly well, but rendered me unable to configure which key does what. Also quite alot of keys had no useful binding at all, so I like the new solution better.
One little annoyance though is that the OK-button used to simulate the enter key of the keyboard, giving me an easy way to access the OSD while playing videos. The 'select' action on the other hand, works fine to select things in the menus, but during playback it changes the video resolution instead of bringing up the OSD.
A similar change happened to the BACK-button. It used to simulate the escape key, which would get me back to the menu if pushed during playback. Now all it does is rewind the current video.
Are there better suited actions I can bind to in Lircmap.xml to get the old behaviours back?
EDIT:
I have tried reading https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...slator.cpp, it is non-trivial.
How I installed: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116996
My hardware: http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-nano-ad10.html
EDIT2:
The changed behaviour of the back button was not that big of a deal once I figured out that I can just use the 'stop'-button instead.
The lack of OSD during videoplayback however is still cumbersome.
