[Kwintv] remote control support

[jeremy at fantasticfamily.net]

That's exactly what I was looking for! I'll do that and let you know
if it works. 

Thanks,
Jeremy
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:13:41 +0200, Zsolt Rizsanyi
<rizsanyi at users.sourceforge.net> wrote :

> On Wednesday 13 April 2005 13.46, jeremy at fantasticfamily.net wrote:
> > Unfortunatley, I can't read this :-(
> 
> Not a big problem for you because he was complaining that he is getting 
> these kdetv messages, but he did not request them.
> 
> > Here's where I'm at. There seems to be little to no documentation on
> > this topic. I'd be willing to write it if I can get this working.
> >
> > The remote control is working. Using the lircrc for TV-Time, I can
> > control tv-time almost perfectly. So, I understand the lircd part of
> > the equation. What I don't understand is the KDE part of the equation.
> > How do I get lircd talking to irkick? It seems to me that I would need
> > some form of communication between the two?
> 
> irkick is talking automatically with lircd, but if it cannot
recognize your 
> remote, then it will present you with an empty configuration dialog.
> So it seems that you need to create a remote definition file that
matches 
> your remote.
> You need a file with the same name as your remote is called in your 
> lircd.conf.
> It is not too hard to write a new remote definition file. Just take an 
> existing one and modify it to match yours from the lircd.conf.
> 
> > Thanks again for all your help! It's much appriciated.
> 
> I will try to help you, but I'm short on time currently. So try what I 
> wrote above and report back if you have any problems.
> 
> Regards,
> Zsolt
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