Re: Suggestions for reporting remote control button presses to userland

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:41:20 -0400
"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:

> > 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 depends on the keyboard.  Some button presses are just key codes,
some are USB HID events.  

I'd look at how MythTV handles remotes -- it might be a good API to
emulate.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb