Thanks! That was what I am (hopefully) looking for, as I've only been (to date) able to map about 3 additional buttons not on the Xbox remote.
I've been using Codes from 0522, which seemed to work very well, but unfortunately had a very limited number. As you are probably aware, the Xbox LIRC module is very picky about what it passes on. I'll give 0059 a shot and hopefully be able to push a lot more codes into the system (although with .17 I don't seem to be missing the lack of buttons as much... The onscreen displays and menus actually seem to work in the TV mode now). I'm not worried about programming the codes into the remote, that's the easy part. Getting IRrecord to do it's thing properly with the Xbox HW is the fun part, imho. Thanks, Greg Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Joe Votour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:52 AM To: Greg Nicholson; mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv & twinhan or Haupage remote? Greg, I'm copying the MythTV users list, just for the benefit of anybody else who might be following this discussion. First of all, I'm not an expert on remote controls or IR, but I have managed to gain a lot of information from studying the list (and a person named Harry O., who provided most of this information). For every type of signal encoding, there is a maximum set of valid combinations that can be done, this will vary from protocol to protocol. Not all receivers have to accept the entire signal set, but many seem to. Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation specific to the XBox, as I'm not using it as a frontend anymore, but for the general idea of how to program the All-In-One URC-6131 remote, look at my website, the page titled, "Using an One For All URC-6131 Remote with a Hauppauge IR Receiver" (URL: http://www.vulturesnest.net/mythtvremote.html). At that page is a set of instructions for mapping extended button codes to the buttons that aren't necessarily mapped by default in RC-5 mode (the protocol that the Hauppauge receiver uses). Using this procedure, I have 48 buttons, all of which are recognizable with lirc (verified using irw) as unique buttons, working with MythTV and Xine, on my XBox. It is a very similar procedure for the XBox. Get a universal remote control that supports the XBox protocol (which is a DVD player of some sort, maybe Panasonic?), that allows for the buttons to be reprogrammed (much like the URC-6131). From there, once you determine the unprogrammed buttons, you can look through the extended codes, find ones that you aren't using on other buttons, and map them to the unmapped buttons. A listing of the extended codes for the XBox remote (DVD player, type 0059) control can be found here: http://www.hifi-remote.com/cgi-bin2/ueic.cgi?DVD_0059 Not all of those buttons are used by the XBox remote, for instance, Antenna and Clear. You can map those codes to buttons on a remote, and the XBox receiver will accept them and pass them on to lirc. Here's an example of the unprogrammed buttons in DVD 0059 mode on my URC-6131 remote control, the extended button codes I assigned to them, and the lirc codes (which may not work for you, I can't say for sure) that detect them: Button lircd code Ext. Code Ext. Button Name ======================================================== VOL+ 55aaa5 480 3-D VOL- 505afa 234 Antenna Mute 5e5a1a 485 Channel Cont Prev 506af9 258 Clear SLOW 53aac5 483 DVD PIP 593a6c 406 Fetch Swap 5c6a39 252 Frame Move 51aae5 738 Guide CH+ 550aaf 400 Marker CH- 51bae4 474 PIP REPLAY 53bac4 731 Power Off SKIP 5c6a39 252 Previous Frame PVRMenu 594a6b 622 Repeat ThUp 512aed 418 Reset ThDown 518ae7 466 Setup (In case you're wondering how I came up with the lirc values, I kind of took a scattergun approach - I just created an lircd.conf with every plausible value and noted which one came up when I pressed the buttons while running irw). I apologize that this isn't a complete step-by-step guide, complete with an lircd.conf file, but I don't have those available at the moment. This should be enough information to get you going though. Unfortunately, it takes trial and error, but it's not really difficult. -- Joe --- Greg Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm counting 27 buttons on the original Xbox remote, > all of which are > working well. By your message, you are counting > above that number. Have > you found codes that are in addition to the 27 on > the Xbox remote, and if > so, can you elaborate/post/email those codes? > > Thanks, > > Greg Nicholson > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Joe Votour > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:15 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv & twinhan or > Haupage remote? > > "The drawback to using the XBox DVD receiver is that > it only responds to the subset of buttons that are > on > the original remote, so you are stuck (AFAIK) with > only a subset of functionality." > > This does not seem to be true, at least not on the > Microsoft XBox DVD dongle that I have. Using the > extended codes for the type of receiver that the > XBox > uses, I was able to program every button (about 30 > of > them) on a All-In-One URC-6131 remote control to > have > a unique code, and all buttons were recognized by > lirc. (I used the same technique as I have on my > website, www.vulturesnest.net, except that I used > the > Microsoft DVD code, instead of RC-5). > > I expect that the Radio Shack remotes would work the > same way, since they use the same codes. > > -- Joe > > --- Greg Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the reply. It looks like I'll stick > with > > the xbox remote for a > > while. It's just the size of it that was bug'n me. > > > > Greg. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Paul Mietz Egli > > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:54 AM > > To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] xbox Mythtv & twinhan > or > > Haupage remote? > > > > On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:26 -0700, Greg Miller > > wrote: > > > Hi, I am running an xbox front end and would > > prefer a different > > > remote. Can I just change one of the lirc files > > with one that is for > > > the other remote? > > > > I use a Radio Shack 8-in-1 Universal Remote > > (15-2116) to control all of my > > AV equipment: a myth-xbox, Sharp Aquos TV, and a > > Phillips DVD player. > > It's cheap, has a pretty good set of buttons, and > > supports the XBox DVD > > remote protocol (code 0522): > > > > http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?cookie% > > > 5Ftest=1&catalog_name=CTLG&category_name=&product_id=15-2116 > > > > The drawback to using the XBox DVD receiver is > that > > it only responds to the > > subset of buttons that are on the original remote, > > so you are stuck > > (AFAIK) with only a subset of functionality. > > Changing the lirc config won't > > give you access to more buttons because the > hardware > > doesn't pass along all > > of the received signals. This means that you > won't > > be able to use a remote > > to access all of the functions you see in > keys.txt. > > For me, having pause, > > menu, info, exit, and the arrow keys is enough, > but > > it sounds like you want > > more functionality, so you should look into USB-IR > > receivers. > > > > p. > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - > Release > > Date: 2/14/2005 > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.8 - > Release > > Date: 2/14/2005 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! 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