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Xbox remote?

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:34 pm
by muyan
Have anyone successfully managed to get the Xbox remote to work in Linux and if so - how?

Works in Freevo

Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2003 9:08 pm
by muyan
Well I don't know how to get the Xbox remote working with LIRC (if it's even possible), but it's no hassle getting it to work in Freevo (which was my primary goal anyway).

All you need to do is activate the joystick plugin in freevo_conf.py.
Like this: "plugin.activate('joy')" - without quotes

and then locate the section looking like or similar to this

JOY_DEV = 1
JOY_CMDS = {
'up' : 'UP',
'down' : 'DOWN',
'left' : 'LEFT',
'right' : 'RIGHT',
'button 1' : 'PLAY',
'button 2' : 'PAUSE',
'button 3' : 'STOP',
'button 4' : 'ENTER',
'button 6' : 'MENU',
'button 5' : 'EXIT',
}

The important line is the first "JOY_DEV = 1" - make sure it's set to 1
If you'd like you can fool around with the keymapping.

It worked for me, and now I don't need keyboard or Xpad to watch vids from freevo.

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 5:59 pm
by Anastrophe
sorry for being so dumb, but how do you install Freevo under Gentoox?

do I just download and run an installer or can magic handle it for me?

Thanks in advance

Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:02 pm
by scoobydu
Its in portage ... Its masked though so you'll have to do to install it.

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge freevo

Perhaps first try this, as freevo has alot of dependencies that will be installed as well :)

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p freevo


This is the info.

pro root # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s freevo
Searching...
[ Results for search key : freevo ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* media-tv/freevo
Latest version available: 1.3.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 2,453 kB
Homepage: http://www.freevo.org/
Description: Digital video jukebox (PVR, DVR).

Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:45 am
by Anastrophe
cheers

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:48 pm
by nillkind
Are you able to use all Buttons?

I'm only able to use the green ones in the middle ( the ones next to select ) They do work. For the others ( Number Keys ) i get:

Code: Select all

send button event BUTTON arg=2
no event mapping for key 2 in context video
send button event BUTTON arg=2
no event mapping for key 2 in context menu
and so on. The Play, FFW, and others don't even show the mesage.
Any help greatly appreciated.