On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:34:49 -0800 (PST)
Jan Panteltje <panteltje@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I recently bought a Terratec cinergy S2 USB HD receiver.
> I got everything working just fine in Linux and get excellent
> reception.
> This thing came with a small remote controller, and I notice
> that the output of this remote appears as ASCII characters on stdin,
> on any terminal that I open...
> Wrote a small GUI application that sets the input focus to a hidden
> input field, and can process the numbers from this remote that way,
> but of course this only works if the mouse has selected that
> application.
>
> Thinking about this I think that the driver dumps the received remote
> control characters simply to stdout.
Something fairly low level processes the input events and converts them
to keyboard events. IIRC this happens on the console as well as in X.
> If this is so, does there perhaps exists a /dev/dvb/adapterX/remoteX
> interface in the specs so I could modify that driver to send the codes
> there?
The events can be read from /dev/input/eventX. You can do something like
parse /proc/bus/input/devices to work out which device corresponds to
your remote. The structure of the events etc is defined in
/usr/include/linux/input.h. The EVIOCGRAB ioctl is useful to grab the
events exclusively for your application and stop them appearing on the
console.
I don't know exactly what the fields in input_event are supposed to
mean, and IME their significance can vary with remote and with kernel
version. If you can find more information about this, please send a copy
to me because I'm about to unsubscribe from linux-media. If you can't
find the information you'll probably find it useful to experiment with
the attached python script (treat as Public Domain).
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import struct
import sys
SIZEOF_INPUT_EVENT = struct.calcsize('llHHi')
# time (2 * long), type, code, value
quiet = False
def main_loop(fd):
while True:
s = os.read(fd, SIZEOF_INPUT_EVENT)
if len(s) != SIZEOF_INPUT_EVENT:
print >>sys.stderr, "Read %d bytes, expected %d" % \
(len(s), SIZEOF_INPUT_EVENT)
break
[tsec, tusec, type, code, value] = struct.unpack('llHHi', s)
if not quiet or type:
print "T:%10.2f t:%02x c:%02x v:%02x" % \
(tsec + float(tusec) / 1000000, type, code, value)
def main():
if sys.argv[1] == '-q':
global quiet
quiet = True
filename = sys.argv[2]
else:
filename = sys.argv[1]
fd = os.open(filename, os.O_RDONLY)
main_loop(fd)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
