Laz wrote: > > I'm in the process of building a new vdr box with an Epia mini-itx motherboard > and I intend to build it into the case of an old video recorder. The front > panel has loads of buttons on it such as play, pause, rew, stop, rec, etc. > and it would be really good if I could connect these up. > > :-) > > I have bought a USB numeric keypad (meant for laptops) that I found cheap in a > sale and I have rewired the buttons on the front panel of the video into a > matrix and connected them in place of the numeric keypad (it is basically > just a small usb module with a keypad membrane plugged into it). All seems to > work: I get a new usb input device when I attach it and if I cat the relevant > input device, I can see the keypresses. So far so good. > > My problem now is how to actually use the thing to control vdr! At the moment, > the keyboard driver is grabbing it and all I get is a series of keycodes such > as numbers, *, /, -, etc. I am using vdr with a LIRC remote but it also has > the keyboard remote compiled in, and, at the moment, pressing random buttons > on the front panel does strange things, as would be expected! > > I can see at least two options: > > 1. Delete my remote.conf and program the 'keyboard' remote using the front > panel (I won't be able to use the proper keyboard to control vdr but I'm sure > I can cope with that!). > > 2. Use the remote plugin with the input device. If I do this, I will still be > getting random commands sent to vdr through the keyboard driver, unless I can > remove the usb keyboard driver and get the remote plugin to talk to the > remote plugin using a raw device, or something. Option 2 should work if - you are using kernel 2.6.x and - specify the event device of the usb keyboard with the -i option. The remote plugin will grab the event device for exclusive access and the keyboard driver will be disconnected. Note that this will work with 2.6.x kernels only! Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ --------------------------------------------------------
