2009-08-19, 17:23
What exactly is the advantage of using XBMC's EventClient support? As far as I know it sends events to XBMC and show notifications on screen when something happens to the input device?
As far as I know i'm not using EventClient (does XBMC load it under the hood?). The remote is working fine as a keyboard, using Bluez and uinput. I don't get any notifications in XBMC about the remote, but do I need any?. It is connected at boot and works for as long as the machine is running so there's nothing to notify me about.
I've hooked up a multimeter to the remote to check power usage. Compared to the PS3, it does use more power overall. I guess the wireless connection with a PS3 is more finetuned than the connection with a generic USB bluetooth dongle. After about 30 mins the remote seems to enter a low-power state all by itself.
The only minor issue I'm having is with the keys on the remote with keycodes >255. The fakehid driver is the culprit here, as Ruff pointed out. In my opinion all problematic keys should be mapped to some normal keyboard letter instead of being ignored. That way anyone who isn't satisfied with the mapping can use gizmod, evrouter, keymap.xml etc. to change it to their liking, without having to recompile fakehid.c.
As far as I know i'm not using EventClient (does XBMC load it under the hood?). The remote is working fine as a keyboard, using Bluez and uinput. I don't get any notifications in XBMC about the remote, but do I need any?. It is connected at boot and works for as long as the machine is running so there's nothing to notify me about.
I've hooked up a multimeter to the remote to check power usage. Compared to the PS3, it does use more power overall. I guess the wireless connection with a PS3 is more finetuned than the connection with a generic USB bluetooth dongle. After about 30 mins the remote seems to enter a low-power state all by itself.
The only minor issue I'm having is with the keys on the remote with keycodes >255. The fakehid driver is the culprit here, as Ruff pointed out. In my opinion all problematic keys should be mapped to some normal keyboard letter instead of being ignored. That way anyone who isn't satisfied with the mapping can use gizmod, evrouter, keymap.xml etc. to change it to their liking, without having to recompile fakehid.c.