Oliver Endriss wrote: >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 > > > Great that saved me a lot of work and made my new case even better :D Well done Oliver :) Background: I have since this week a Silverstone LaScala LC14 with neat little buttons on the front. Being connected to one usb port i thought it might be just additional keyboard like buttons (indeed showkey shows values for these keys). .... compiled your plugin, tested which input device it is and started vdr accordingly - keys are instantly working :) If i would be Laz i would go this way. Regarding the numlock it should not matter much. At least showkey shows just a normal keycode so i would assume that it behaves like any other key on usb too (just imho, but trying does not cause to much work) Kind Regards Steffen
