[vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Jan Rieger wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rene Bartsch" <ml@bartschnet.de>
> To: "VDR-ML" <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 10:26 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: RE : [ANNOUNCE] vdr control plugin "preview"
> 
> > Am Fre, 2003-08-15 um 22.06 schrieb Rene Bartsch:
> > >
> > > I've started VDR with -P\"control
> > > -t/dev/tty8\" and I get a "Hello, foreign, Im the keyboard handler of
> > > VDR" and I see a OSD-line with channel-info, but then screen gets black
> > > and doesn't react on keyboard.
> >
> > I've found the reason. I didn't have a remote.conf. With an old one
> > copied in it works, but the control-plugin doesn't help on system
> > without DXR3 or DVB-X. So the plugin should support the teaching
> > funktion ...
> 
> Since VDR doesn't support the teaching function over the cState
> mechanism, the plugin can't provide this kind of information without
> heavily patching VDR.
> The plugins "LCDproc" and "Graphic LCD" should have the same
> problem.

If you want to implement a remote control that automatically goes
through the learning phase, you just need to derive it from cRemote.
There's no "heavy patching" necessary for this ,-)

Klaus


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