On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 07:35:10PM +0000, Sean Young wrote: > > The application I am trying to use it with is the mythtv frontend. I > > am doing the keycode munging from an SSH session while myth is still > > running on the main screen. I didn't think this would matter (since it > > worked for KEY_OK->KEY_ENTER) but perhaps it does. Obviously > > ir-keytable -t intercepts the scancodes when it is running, but when I > > kill it myth responds normally to some keys, but not all. > > X and keycodes is a bit messy. You might need xmodmap mappings. You > can check them xev. I don't know much about this, I'm afraid. What > linux distribution, version and keyboard layout are you using? I could > try and see if I can reproduce/fix this.
I mostly figured this out but something weird happens with the most significant bit (see my follow-on email). FWIW, this is on ubuntu 16.04 with their standard kernel (4.4) and a bog-standard US english layout. > > I wanted to mention that the IR protocol is still showing as unknown. > > Is there anything that can be done to sort that out? > > It would be nice if that could be sorted out, although that would be > a separate patch. That's fine. For the current patch, please feel free to add my Tested-By: vincent.mcint...@gmail.com > So all we know right now is what scancode the IR receiver hardware > produces but we have no idea what IR protocol is being used. In > order to figure this out we need a recording of the IR the remote > sends, for which a different IR receiver is needed. Neither your > imon nor your dvb_usb_af9035 can do this, something like a mce usb > IR receiver would be best. Do you have access to one? One with an IR > emitter would be best. > > So with that we can have a recording of the IR the remote sends, and > with the emitter we can see which IR protocols the IR receiver > understands. > I'll poke around to see if I can find something, will take a few days. Thanks again for your interest in this. Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
