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Re: Proposal for reporting remote control button presses to userland



Andrew Gillham wrote:
Also the question about identifying the correct remote was mentioned
and you suggested the serial number of the IR receiver, or the pci id
etc.  At the basic level I don't care as much how the IR event got to
the wsremoted as I care which remote generated the event.  E.g. if I
have two remotes configured, I want to be able to differentiate
between them, but use the same IR receiver hardware.  Or if I have IR
hardware accepting input from two rooms I will want to differentiate
by hardware & remote.

Gotcha, some protocols have a concept of 'remote address'. I've already changed the kernel->user interface to send raw bytes (rather than simply the keycode) so this should be pretty straight-forward.

I'll add a remote-address key to the cooked message from remoted (defaulting to 0 for protocols that don't support it), but I'd prefer to use the # rather than a symbolic name. How does that sound?

Cheers,
Jared


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