[vdr] Re: Reference RC (was DXR3 support patch for vdr-1.1.5)

[Patrick GUENEAU <pgueneau@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello.


Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

> Thomas Jagoditsch wrote:
> 
>>...
>>as somebody else said, you have to configure lircd.conf to match vdr,
>>which is in some situations suboptimal.
>>
> 
> The current implementation of the LIRC interface in VDR assumes that
> LIRC sends names that are defined within VDR. I guess this could be
> easily changed so that it uses a 'keys-lirc.conf' file. That would
> allow a LIRC user to simply set up his remote with the standard LIRC
> config file(s) and go into VDR's "Learning keys" function, just as
> with my home-built RCU or the PC keyboard. I guess I'll make that
> change as soon as possible.
> 

Bernhard Wager Has made a patch to enable lirc client support. It 
enables translation between VDR keywords and real Remote keys (the one 
found in /etc/lircd.conf) using a config file (something like .lircrc).

Klaus, I think you could keep using standard key names and let lirc 
client api do the job. It would also enable alternate key definition for 
the same blue,red etc function keys, as it seems to be a hot topic at 
the moment.

One step further could be to generalize svdrp commands for all VDR 
operations (something like MPlayer new input mode). '.lircrc' file would 
be used to define which command VDR should apply for each keypress.

Something like :

   begin
    remote = REALMAGIC1
    prog   = vdr
    button = FFWD
    repeat = 1
    config = HITK <keyname> or any SVDRP command
   end


What do you think of that ?

Regards,
Patrick.