Comments on: My new bitching mythtv box http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:37:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Peter Skarpetis http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9450 Peter Skarpetis Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:44:42 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9450 Here is an excerpt from my lircrc fie from the .mythtv folder begin prog = mythtv button = Down repeat = 1 config = Down end For me the repeat works for the arrow keys as these are the only ones I have configured to do autorepeat. Here is an excerpt from my lircrc fie from the .mythtv folder

begin
prog = mythtv
button = Down
repeat = 1
config = Down
end

For me the repeat works for the arrow keys as these are the only ones I have configured to do autorepeat.

]]> By: Matthieu http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9431 Matthieu Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:27:40 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9431 Repeat problems Thanks you for the site, it was a great help to me. The only thing that doesn't work are the repeat buttons for me, it seems that the option "repeat" from the lirc file isn't taken into account. Anybody experience with that? Repeat problems

Thanks you for the site, it was a great help to me.

The only thing that doesn’t work are the repeat buttons for me, it seems that the option “repeat” from the lirc file isn’t taken into account.

Anybody experience with that?

]]> By: Matthieu http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9430 Matthieu Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:51:23 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9430 hello, Here I am again. Did you ever made the repeat option working? When I set the repeat option in the lirc file it has no effect. I already tried with the windows client to configure a button with repeat code but this doesn't seem to help. hello,

Here I am again.

Did you ever made the repeat option working? When I set the repeat option in the lirc file it has no effect. I already tried with the windows client to configure a button with repeat code but this doesn’t seem to help.

]]> By: Peter Skarpetis http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9377 Peter Skarpetis Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:54:58 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9377 No idea I am afraid. Google is your friend for that one :) No idea I am afraid. Google is your friend for that one :)

]]> By: kc http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9376 kc Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:25:21 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9376 Thanks. Any suggestions on how to get the keyboard to work? Thanks. Any suggestions on how to get the keyboard to work?

]]> By: Peter Skarpetis http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9375 Peter Skarpetis Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:53:45 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9375 You are quite correct. irexec is the way to go. Fist you would need a cmdline program that can control / send commands to the device you wish to control. The you could create a config file for lircrc which uses irexec to send commands to the device. A quick search of Google shows many pages with this particular page seeming to describe what you are trying to do. http://d1g1t.net/tags/irexec/ You are quite correct. irexec is the way to go. Fist you would need a cmdline program that can control / send commands to the device you wish to control. The you could create a config file for lircrc which uses irexec to send commands to the device.

A quick search of Google shows many pages with this particular page seeming to describe what you are trying to do.

http://d1g1t.net/tags/irexec/

]]> By: kc http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9374 kc Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:37:50 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9374 Peter, Your tutorial really helped me out, thanks a lot! I am now able to use the remote. How would you go about controlling an external receiver (e.g. dish) from mythtv with the irserver? The documentation on the irtrans website mentions the use of irexec as an LIRC client that can be usefull but I have no real idea on how to get started. I was also trying to use the MCE-kbd but apparently it is not supported in linux. Any ideas?? Thanks Peter,

Your tutorial really helped me out, thanks a lot! I am now able to use the remote.
How would you go about controlling an external receiver (e.g. dish) from mythtv with the irserver? The documentation on the irtrans website mentions the use of irexec as an LIRC client that can be usefull but I have no real idea on how to get started.
I was also trying to use the MCE-kbd but apparently it is not supported in linux. Any ideas??

Thanks

]]> By: Peter Skarpetis http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9073 Peter Skarpetis Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:07:52 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9073 no problems with irtrans on my box. My mythtv has been up for about 3 months without a reboot and the remote still works fine. no problems with irtrans on my box. My mythtv has been up for about 3 months without a reboot and the remote still works fine.

]]> By: rbsdude http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9072 rbsdude Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:35:19 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9072 That certainly did the trick . Xine works perfectly with remote . Now I have ended up with 2 lircrc files . One for Mythtv config which is in ~/.mythtv/lircrc and another for xine/mplayer in ~/.lircrc . Nowhere in the docs that I have seen so far mentioned that . Thanks for that much appreciate it . PS. Have you observed any stability issues with this irtarns software , any unusual lockups or freezes , crashes ? That certainly did the trick . Xine works perfectly with remote . Now I have ended up with 2 lircrc files . One for Mythtv config which is in ~/.mythtv/lircrc and another for xine/mplayer in ~/.lircrc . Nowhere in the docs that I have seen so far mentioned that . Thanks for that much appreciate it .

PS.

Have you observed any stability issues with this irtarns software , any unusual lockups or freezes , crashes ?

]]> By: Peter Skarpetis http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9071 Peter Skarpetis Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:18:15 +0000 http://blog.peter.skarpetis.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-new-bitching-mythtv-box/#comment-9071 I do not use Xine myself so I cannot really help you. I do however use mplayer and for it you need to add commands to the in ~/.lircrc. For example, for mplayer I have entries like the following: <pre> begin prog = mplayer button = More config = osd end begin prog = mplayer button = Left repeat = 1 config = seek -10 end </pre> I do not use Xine myself so I cannot really help you. I do however use mplayer and for it you need to add commands to the in ~/.lircrc.

For example, for mplayer I have entries like the following:

begin
    prog   = mplayer
    button = More
    config = osd
end

begin
    prog   = mplayer
    button = Left
    repeat = 1
    config = seek -10
end
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