Hi,
I'm trying to set up the yellow/blue/green/red buttons of my HAMA REMOTE to their correct functions Teletext/EPG/Audio/Summary.
It is (at least for me ;-) not possible to set more than 1 of those keys via the Options-Menu "Remote Control". The key is added as "RemoteKey96", and added to the "RemoteKeyNum" parameter in vomp-MAC-ADDR.conf. From then on, all colored buttons activate the Teletext (that's not exactly what I want).
Is there a description somewhere on how to find out, which RemoteKey[0..95] is the equivalent to which remote control button, to be able to change/set the button in the vomp-MAC-DDR.conf files themselves?
Thanks,
Tom
I suspect, the driver reports all keys with the same scan code.
Test it by using cat on the /dev/input/event device of your remote, unfortunetely for some remotes the kernel module does not contain all keys. (Maybe look for Kernel patches).
Then manually editing the config will not help.
Anyway RemoteKey96, says nothing, it only says, that it is the 96th remote translation rule. The rule itself is encoded in the heaxdecimal number.
Marten
Hi there,
I'm facing the same problems with the HAMA - remote. There are several reasons:
- The HAMA remote creates 2 devices: /dev/input/by-id/usb-05a4_9881-event-kbd and /dev/input/by-id/usb-05a4_9881-event-mouse
- When pressing the colour - keys a key sequence is generated e.g. Ctrl-, Shift-, t-Event and unfortunately no CTRL_SHIFT_KEY_T Event
What I've done so far:
I created a lirc device using inputlirc according to this howto http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Configure_VRC-1100_remote_for_Ubuntu (http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Configure_VRC-1100_remote_for_Ubuntu)
When starting irw, I get different events for the different keys.
The good question now:
How can I use (input)lirc - events for the VOMPCLIENT?
One solution might be unsing IREXEC and netcat connecting via socket similar to http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=658.0 (http://forum.loggytronic.com/index.php?topic=658.0).
Might there be any other possibility, because this approach seems to be really intricately?
@Marten
When having a look at your sources, might there be a possibility to use native LIRC?
Regards
Wolfgang
Ok guys,
attached my solution for the HAMA MCE REMOTE.
First installing inputlirc
sudo apt-get install inputlirc
Configure inputlirc
Edit /etc/default/inputlirc
# Options to be passed to inputlirc.
# EVENTS="/dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event1"
EVENTS="/dev/input/by-id/usb-05a4_9881-event-kbd /dev/input/by-id/usb-05a4_9881-event-mouse"
OPTIONS="-g -c -m0"
This maps all IR-remote events to LIRC
Now all LIRC events have to be mapped to remote socket:
Second installing lirc
sudo apt-get install lirc
Edit /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
# /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
#
# Arguments which will be used when launching lircd
LIRCD_ARGS=""
#Don't start lircmd even if there seems to be a good config file
#START_LIRCMD=false
#Don't start irexec, even if a good config file seems to exist.
START_IREXEC=true
#Try to load appropriate kernel modules
#LOAD_MODULES=true
# Run "lircd --driver=help" for a list of supported drivers.
DRIVER="UNCONFIGURED"
# usually /dev/lirc0 is the correct setting for systems using udev
DEVICE="none"
MODULES="none"
# Default configuration files for your hardware if any
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
Edit /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
#
#
# To find out how to get a proper configuration file please read:
#
# /usr/share/doc/lirc/README.Debian
START_IREXEC=true
Next edit /etc/lir/lircrc
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_UP
config = echo "20" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_DOWN
config = echo "21" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_LEFT
config = echo "22" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_RIGHT
config = echo "23" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_SHIFT_KEY_T
config = echo "56" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_BACKSPACE
config = echo "31" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_KEY_M
config = echo "41" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_KEY_I
config = echo "46" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_KEY_E
config = echo "11" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_ENTER
config = echo "37" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_VOLUMEUP
config = echo "16" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
config = echo "17" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP0
config = echo "0" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP1
config = echo "1" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP2
config = echo "2" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP3
config = echo "3" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP4
config = echo "4" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP5
config = echo "5" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP6
config = echo "6" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP7
config = echo "7" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP8
config = echo "8" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KP9
config = echo "9" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_SHIFT_KEY_B
config = echo "50" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_SHIFT_KEY_F
config = echo "52" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_PREVIOUSSONG
config = echo "36" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_NEXTSONG
config = echo "30" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_PLAYPAUSE
config = echo "48" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_HOMEPAGE
config = echo "59" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_PAGEUP
config = echo "32" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_PAGEDOWN
config = echo "33" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = BTN_RIGHT
config = echo "13" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_MUTE
config = echo "15" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_KPASTERISK
config = echo "10" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_NUMLOCK
config = echo "14" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = ALT_META_KEY_ENTER
config = echo "18" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = KEY_SLEEP
config = echo "61" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
begin
prog = irexec
button = CTRL_KEY_R
config = echo "55" |nc -w0 -u 127.0.0.1 2000
end
I use netcat to transfer the keys according the remote.h to the local vompclient - socket.
... remarks welcome :)
Wolfgang
VERY VERY COOL! :) :) :)
I needed some additions in hardware.conf to get it up n running:
REMOTE_MODULES="lirc_dev lirc_i2c"
REMOTE_DRIVER="devinput"
REMOTE_DEVICE="/dev/input/by-id/usb-05a4_9881-event-kbd"
REMOTE_SOCKET=""
If no DRIVER is given, it complains that there's no driver called UNCONFIGURED. All other settings and procedures were working as explained.
All extra buttons are now working (REC, FF, etc.).
Once again: VERY VERY COOL :D
This is to let you know that the solution also worked for me. Just a few hints which might be helpful for others:
(1) I had to remove the substring "REMOTE_" in the variable names as intruced by yotom. Otherwise I still got the error message which he was mentioning.
(2) For some reasons, in my installation, irexec was looking to /etc/lirc/lirc/lircrc instead of /etc/lirc/lircrc. I just copied the lircrc into a newly created subdirectory (I first missed that but I came across a helpful error message when I run irexec manually :D)
(3) Last but not least: irexec has to run while using vompclient. I put "irexec -d" into the rc.local. I could imagine that the configuration should have done that for me. But in my case, it did not.
Much better than at the beginning: even the color buttons work. Also, when pressing a key constantly, there is auto repeat now.
MANY THANKS
Thanks a lot for this very helpful posts. They worked well for me.
I had to remove the "REMOTE_" part as well. And one pitfall for irexec is, that it does not like lircrc files edited in Windows. So be sure to remove the "^M" in the file, if you did edit it with a windows editor.