Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > Hi Jon, > > on 04 Dec 09 at 19:28, Jon Smirl wrote: >>> BTW, I just came across a XMP remote that seems to generate 3x64 bit >>> scan codes. Anyone here has docs on the XMP protocol? >> Assuming a general purpose receiver (not one with fixed hardware >> decoding), is it important for Linux to receive IR signals from all >> possible remotes no matter how old or obscure? Or is it acceptable to > [...] >> Of course transmitting is a completely different problem, but we >> haven't been talking about transmitting. I can see how we would need >> to record any IR protocol in order to retransmit it. But that's in the >> 5% of users world, not the 90% that want MythTV to "just work". Use >> something like LIRC if you want to transmit. > > I don't think anyone here is in the position to be able to tell what is > 90% or 5%. True. Yet, cases like IR devices made by someone's own use is something that we don't need to care to have an in-kernel driver. > Personally I use LIRC exclusively for transmit to my settop box > using an old and obscure RECS80 protocol. > No, I won't replace my setup just because it's old and obscure. > > Cable companies tend to provide XMP based boxes to subscribers more often > these days. Simply not supporting these setups is a no-go for me. I don't see any reason why not supporting STB protocols. Several such hardware use Linux, anyway. So, eventually the STB manufacturers may send us decoders that work with their IR's. Cheers, Mauro. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
