Messages in this thread | | | Date | 06 Dec 2009 13:12:00 +0100 | From | (Christoph Bartelmus) | Subject | Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? |
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Hi Jon,
on 04 Dec 09 at 19:28, Jon Smirl wrote: >> BTW, I just came across a XMP remote that seems to generate 3x64 bit >> scan codes. Anyone here has docs on the XMP protocol? > > Assuming a general purpose receiver (not one with fixed hardware > decoding), is it important for Linux to receive IR signals from all > possible remotes no matter how old or obscure? Or is it acceptable to [...] > Of course transmitting is a completely different problem, but we > haven't been talking about transmitting. I can see how we would need > to record any IR protocol in order to retransmit it. But that's in the > 5% of users world, not the 90% that want MythTV to "just work". Use > something like LIRC if you want to transmit.
I don't think anyone here is in the position to be able to tell what is 90% or 5%. Personally I use LIRC exclusively for transmit to my settop box using an old and obscure RECS80 protocol. No, I won't replace my setup just because it's old and obscure.
Cable companies tend to provide XMP based boxes to subscribers more often these days. Simply not supporting these setups is a no-go for me.
Christoph
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