On 17 Jan 2009, at 17:32, Alex Betis wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Please help me with remote control configuration since I'm breaking
> my head on a wall for more than a week already. RC is the only thing
> at the moment that stops me using the VDR as my main TV source.
>
> I've bought a nifty (and cheap) remote and a nice USB receiver.
> Looks like a clone of MCE remote. It has a small joystick to control
> the mouse.
> The USB receiver pass keyboard and mouse events to the system, so I
> can use it instead of my keyboard without any LIRC configuration.
> BUT, I do want to use LIRC since I want to bound one of the buttons
> for other tasks (such as switching to XBMC or running vdr-sxfe to
> pass sound to my sound system instead of the TV).
>
> irw works ok.
> I've set /etc/lircrc to pass the commands to vdr-sxfe and ircat
> shows them successfuly.
> I've added some commands such as LIRC.Volume+ and LIRC.Volume-
> manually to remotes.conf, but it doesn't really help.
>
> I can run vdr-sxfe with --lirc and see that it receives the codes
> direcly without my lircrc configuration, but it will miss many
> features since some of the RC buttins send sequnce of keys, which
> can be catched using lircrc configuration.
> Without specifying --lirc, vdr-sxfe seems to receive the keyboard
> commands instead the commands from LIRC.
>
> Can anyone help me please?
>
> People who have the original MCE remote, does your IR receiver also
> pass keyboard commands to the system?
> I saw that as soon as there is a connection to lircd (such as with
> irw or ircat) the keyboard events are not passed the system any more
> and that's good, but vdr-sxfe doesn't connect unless I'll use the --
> lirc switch.
>
> I'm stuck with that.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks.
>