2010-04-15, 21:17
Hi All,
I am new to XBMC, and love it, but am having a lot of trouble getting a lirc remote working.
I have lirc set up and working perfectly in other programs like freevo/vlc etc ..
My lack of understanding is how the key names I have in my lircd.conf are translated to xbmc. Normally in other programs you make a lircrc file with all the mappings.
I understand with XBMC that you put a Lircmap.xml file in /home/user/.xbmc/userdata. I did that, the file looks like this.
And then there is the keymap.xml file, just to add to the confusion. Do I have to make a custom one of those, or is that depricated in favour of remote.xml which I have put in ..userdata/remotes?
By the way, my installation put all the files under /opt/xbmc... instead of
/usr/share/xbmc ... is that an issue?
How does xbmc listen to the lirc commands?
Is there a way to make xbmc output some debugging so I can see if anything is being received.
Please help ... the remote is all that is stopping me use XBMC to replace freevo/mythtv in my lounge.
Many Thanks,
B.
I am new to XBMC, and love it, but am having a lot of trouble getting a lirc remote working.
I have lirc set up and working perfectly in other programs like freevo/vlc etc ..
My lack of understanding is how the key names I have in my lircd.conf are translated to xbmc. Normally in other programs you make a lircrc file with all the mappings.
I understand with XBMC that you put a Lircmap.xml file in /home/user/.xbmc/userdata. I did that, the file looks like this.
Quote:<lircmap>The names in the middle are what my lircd.conf calls them i.e my lircd.conf
<remote device="Streamzap_PC_Remote">
<power>POWER</power>
<record>RECORD</record>
<play>PLAY</play>
<reverse><<</reverse>
<pause>PAUSE</pause>
<stop>STOP</stop>
<forward>>>|</forward>
<left>LEFT</left>
<right>RIGHT</right>
<up>UP</up>
<down>DOWN</down>
<select>OK</select>
<pageplus>CH_UP</pageplus>
<pageminus>CH_DOWN</pageminus>
<back>EXIT</back>
<menu>MENU</menu>
<title>BLUE</title>
<info>GREEN</info>
<skipplus>NextChapter</skipplus>
<skipminus>PrevChapter</skipminus>
<display>YELLOW</display>
<start>RED</start>
<volumeplus>VOL_UP</volumeplus>
<volumeminus>VOL_DOWN</volumeminus>
<mute>MUTE</mute>
<myvideo>MyMovie</myvideo>
<mymusic>MyMusic</mymusic>
<mypictures>MyPhoto</mypictures>
<mytv>MyTV</mytv>
<one>1</one>
<two>2</two>
<three>3</three>
<four>4</four>
<five>5</five>
<six>6</six>
<seven>7</seven>
<eight>8</eight>
<nine>9</nine>
<zero>0</zero>
</remote>
</lircmap>
Quote:begin remote
name Streamzap_PC_Remote
bits 6
flags RC5|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100
one 889 889
zero 889 889
plead 889
pre_data_bits 8
pre_data 0xA3
gap 108344
toggle_bit 2
begin codes
0 0x00
1 0x01
2 0x02
3 0x03
4 0x04
5 0x05
6 0x06
7 0x07
8 0x08
9 0x09
POWER 0x0A
MUTE 0x0B
CH_UP 0x0C
VOL_UP 0x0D
CH_DOWN 0x0E
VOL_DOWN 0x0F
UP 0x10
LEFT 0x11
OK 0x12
RIGHT 0x13
DOWN 0x14
MENU 0x15
EXIT 0x16
PLAY 0x17
PAUSE 0x18
STOP 0x19
|<< 0x1A
>>| 0x1B
RECORD 0x1C
<< 0x1D
>> 0x1E
RED 0x20
GREEN 0x21
YELLOW 0x22
BLUE 0x23
end codes
end remote
And then there is the keymap.xml file, just to add to the confusion. Do I have to make a custom one of those, or is that depricated in favour of remote.xml which I have put in ..userdata/remotes?
By the way, my installation put all the files under /opt/xbmc... instead of
/usr/share/xbmc ... is that an issue?
How does xbmc listen to the lirc commands?
Is there a way to make xbmc output some debugging so I can see if anything is being received.
Please help ... the remote is all that is stopping me use XBMC to replace freevo/mythtv in my lounge.
Many Thanks,
B.