On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:08:10PM +0100, Sean Young wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 02:35:32PM +0200, Ralf Schmidt wrote: > > On more thing: because off the removed -d parameter, Remotes like the > > Technisat TTS35AI are no longer supported, such Type of Remotes are not > > recognized in /sys/class/rc/. > > So I'm now the proud owner of this device. > > This device is a usb dongle which is an IR receiver, but self-describes > as a usb hid keyboard device. It comes with a remote. > > As far as I can figure out, there is no way to reprogram it. > > So users have been re-mapping scancodes to different keycodes using: > > ir-keytable -d /dev/input/eventN -c -k 0x12:KEY_F1 > > However, ir-keytable was designed load keymaps for rc devices, not hid > devices. This functionality was intentionally removed, as it was buggy > in many ways. ir-keytable does not exist for remapping usb hid keyboards. > > This has left some users like Ralf in a situation where they can no longer > change the key mappings for their remote. > > ir-keytable is probably not the right way to do this; it has no rules to > do this from udev, for example. What tooling is there for doing this > and what is the recommended way to do this? remapping the keys through the udev builtins maybe? see /usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb Cheers, Peter
