[vdr] Re: vdr not reading .lircrc ?

[Tobias Kerner <tobschle@gmx.de>]

Andreas Lange wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been using vdr for a few weeks now and I must say it
> is a wonderful program.
> 
> However there is a little problem with the lirc support.
> I can't find an option to make it read my ~/.lircrc.
> Sorry if i missed something in the documentation, but I
> think it would be more convenient to have key names read from a
> normal lirc-configuration file instead of the config.c that
> needs to be re-edited when compiling a new vdr version.
> 
> But more important for me is that the number of keys on my
> remote is limited, so I normally have different modes defined.
> Now when I press keys that are meant for xmms or mplayer
> or whatever they do not interfere with each other, but unfortunately
> vdr doesn't know about all that and always responds to pressed
> keys (for example:
> I want to pause xmms -> xmms does that + vdr stops recording)
> 
> Is there a way to make vdr behave like other programs with
> lirc support, or would it be possible to add support for that?
> 
> Thank you very much for the great program,
> 
> Andreas Lange
> 
> 
> 
> 

vdr uses the definitions of /etc/lircd.conf