HAL support for remote controls

[Richard Hughes]

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 23:22 +0200, Arnaud Quette wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've been thinking a bit more about adding support for remote controls in HAL.
> 
> The obvious things that first come in mind are that:
> - it will be through LIRC,
> - it won't be used for events reporting, but only for device detection.
> Event reporting will still be through the /dev/lircd socket or the
> future uinput support.

uinput seems most sane. INPUT is the standard (and becoming more so now
all my acpi patches are getting merged) way to key keys to userspace and
optionally remapping them.

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>  <device>
>   <!-- ATI Wireless Remote Receiver, model no. 5000023600 -->
>   <match key="info.bus" string="usb_device">
>    <match key="usb_device.vendor_id" int="0x0bc7">
>     <match key="usb_device.product_id" int="0x0004">
>      <merge key="info.category" type="string">input</merge>
>      <append key="info.capabilities" type="strlist">input</append>
>      <append key="info.capabilities"
> type="strlist">input.remote_control</append>
>     </match>
>    </match>
>   </match>
>  </device>
> </deviceinfo>

Very sane.

> Denis Gautherot, from the Ubuntu Media Center team, is currently
> working on extracting, and assembling a complete list of USB IDs and
> their matching info for all USB remotes.
> 
> Once he has completed is task, we will generate a complete fdi, and
> include it in the LIRC sources. Denis' work will also be useful to
> make LIRC configless (still limited to USB devices)

Woot! Cheers for doing this.

Richard.