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Date:      Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:50:17 +0200
From:      Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A better remote for pctv452e/s2-3600, dib0700/nova-td (dvb-s2/t)
Message-ID:  <20110828185016.GA73747@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110820170249.GA96844@triton8.kn-bremen.de>
References:  <20110820170249.GA96844@triton8.kn-bremen.de>

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Sorry for following up to myself but...

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 07:02:49PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  I just tried this so I wanted to share...  Both my dvb-s2 (TechnoTrend
> S2-3600 and most likely also the original PCTV 452e) and my new
> dual dvb-t tuner Hauppauge Nova-TD (see
> 
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/WebcamCompat
> 
> ) work with an universal remote configured as an rc5 remote Hauppauge
> PVR-350 (I used a Logitech Harmony but other universal remotes
> should also work as long as they can use the PVR-350 config), if I
> set the /usr/local/etc/rc_keymaps/haupp keymap using ir-keymap(1)
> installed by the multimedia/v4l-utils port:
> 
> 	ir-keymap -d /dev/input/event0 -w /usr/local/etc/rc_keymaps/haupp
> 
 Actually it's ir-keytable not ir-keymap, sorry.

> (you can ignore the error about setting protocol which doesn't work
> since webcamd doesn't emulate Linux' /sys nodes), and then configure
> lirc for devinput as described in the lirc port's pkg-message, quote:
> 
> webcamd 3.0.0.1 now supports /dev/input/eventX (X there can be for
> example 0, 8, 16 etc) and uses it exclusively for almost all tuners,
> only mceusb IR-only devices now support both interfaces.  So if you
> don't get a /dev/lircX device node anymore and want to make lirc
> use a remote with such a tuner you now need the lirc devinput driver,
> if you start lircd via the rc.d script set lircd_flags and lircd_device
> in rc.conf(5), like:
> 
>         lircd_flags="-H devinput"
>         lircd_device="/dev/input/event0"
> 
> The example lircd.conf includes the devinput config file too so if
> all goes well irw(1) should still work with such tuners and show
> buttons pressed [...]
> 
>  (and yes, irw(1) works with the PVR350 config.)
> 
>  Btw I used this particular remote since a) it's rc5 (which both
> these tuners' shipped remotes use) and b) it was one with one of
> the most buttons out of the available rc5 keymaps in
> /usr/local/etc/rc_keymaps so I can assign extra buttons to custom
> functions using lirc too (which I still need to do, I want to define
> at least buttons to start either of vdr-sxfe or xbmc...)
> 
>  Enjoy, :)
> 	Juergen



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