On 19 September 2015 16:35:20 BST, Daniel Frey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote: > > You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a > local > > overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and > dependencies > > move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or > public > > facing server, you can leave it at that version and not update it > until you > > buy new hardware. > > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > fight > udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up having to > use > UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) > > The hardware is built into the htpc case and unless it stops working I > won't replace it - I don't want to have a dongle sitting off to the > side. > > Primarily though, I use irexec to do other things and evdev (or the > kernel's map to keypresses) doesn't appear to offer an equivalent. > > As one example, the power key doesn't do squat with the > evdev/ir-keytable, I've tried extensively to get it to work. It works > to > power it up if the machine is shut down, but neither xbmc or mythtv > will > do anything with the power keystroke to shut it down. After a couple > of > days messing around trying to get it to work, I set up irexec and it > worked immediately - and it's been that way for many years. > > Dan
Have you looked at evrouter? It allow you to run commands on evdev events. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
