Re: Suggestions for reporting remote control button presses to userland

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>
> > I have a 24-button IR remote control here that I want to use with NetBSD.
>
> There is a Sony Bluetooth remote (intended for the PS/3) that would be
> neat to be able to use also. I didn't look into it but there was some
> mention on the freebsd bluetooth list a while ago.

I have one, they are very nice indeed.

> > My driver decodes the key presses, but I don't know how to deliver them
> > to userland. wskbd seems a bit heavy, and even if there was an easier
> > way I'm not sure how I would represent a button named eg. "DVD menu" or
> > "Guide" with wskbd.
>
> how do keyboards (or computers) with 'media buttons' work?  If they
> translate into some kind of keycode then I think a remote control should
> probably just do that also.. (it is a key press on a board of keys :)

It looks like the USB HID spec has provisions for this type of thing:

``
The HID class consists primarily of devices that are used by humans to 
control the operation of computer systems. Typical examples of HID class 
devices include:
[..]
Controls that might be found on devices such as telephones, VCR remote
controls, games or simulation devices—for example: data gloves, 
throttles, steering wheels, and rudder pedals.
''

It would be nice of there was a uhidev compatible layer that any driver 
could implement..

Cheers,
Jared