no UI control over Apple Remote (Mac) enable/disable

[ecronin]

If compiled with Apple Remote support Myth will always swallow IR events from the apple remote even if another remote is being used (e.g. LIRC). Also, when LIRC is being used the Apple Remote seems to be ignored.

There are compile-time ways to fix this, but I'd like to help get the sniderpad builds including LIRC *and* apple remote so there's a single binary mac users can download...

A dropdown menu to select the remote driver (like audio output etc) seems the correct way to handle this. At the minimum a database setting so that it can be enabled/disabled at runtime not compile time.

[robertm]

Feature request without patch.

[Nigel]

I will need to look back over LIRC on Mac discussions, but as far as I know the default trunk build does enable both LIRC and AppleRemote?. e.g.:

% ./osx-packager.pl --enable-backend --verbose --themeskip
...
Checked out revision 26338.
[osx-pkg] Configuring mythtv
[osx-pkg] ./configure --prefix=/Volumes/Backups/MythTV/.osx-packager/build --runprefix=../Resources --disable-mmx --enable-disable-mmx-for-debugging --enable-backend --disable-distcc
...
# Input Support
Joystick menu             no
lirc support              yes
Apple Remote              yes
...

The patch allows the user to disable AppleRemote?, but I'm not happy applying that - the correct fix would be to work out why both LIRC and AppleRemote? can't co-exist. Happy to discuss on mythtv-dev

[Nigel]

The following allows the packager to build a LIRC-enabled binary, and it happily still works with the Apple remote, but that is because I haven't gotten the LIRC daemon to do anything but exit:

% svn diff src/packaging 
Index: src/packaging/OSX/build/osx-packager.pl
===================================================================
--- src/packaging/OSX/build/osx-packager.pl	(revision 26977)
+++ src/packaging/OSX/build/osx-packager.pl	(working copy)
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
         'mysqlclient',
         #'dbus',
         'qt-4.6',
+        'lirc',
       ],
   'mythplugins'
   =>  [
@@ -253,6 +254,20 @@
     'parallel-make' => 'yes'
   },
 
+  'lirc' =>
+  {
+    'url' => 'http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lirc/lirc-0.8.2.tar.bz2',
+    'conf' =>
+    [
+        '--localstatedir=$PREFIX/var',
+        '--sysconfdir=$PREFIX',
+        '--with-devdir=$PREFIX/var/run',
+        '--with-driver=audio',    # Depends on portaudio?
+        '--with-driver=macmini',  # Linux only?
+        '--with-driver=udp',
+    ],
+  },
+
   'exif' =>
   {
     'url'  => "$sourceforge/sourceforge/libexif/libexif-0.6.17.tar.bz2",
%
% .osx-packager/build/bin/lircrcd .osx-packager/src/lirc-0.8.2/remotes/apple/lircd.conf.macmini
%
% MythFrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/MythFrontend
...
2010-10-25 16:42:45.488 LIRC, Error: Failed to connect to Unix socket '/var/run/lirc/lircd'
			eno: No such file or directory (2)

I'm also still not happy about another setting for remote preference. There is likely to be 3 people in the whole world that would use. The "Apple" way for a Mac to ignore someone clicking an Apple Remote in the room is to unpair that remote in System Preferences!

[Nigel]

Aah - wrong binary. Googled a few pages, and LIRCd in network-only client mode needs:

% sudo mkdir /var/run/lirc
% sudo chmod 777 /var/run/lirc
% touch ~/.lircrc
% .osx-packager/build/sbin/lircd -H udp -o /var/run/lirc/lircd -n -L /dev/null
lircd: could not open config file '/Volumes/Backups/MythTV/.osx-packager/build/lircd.conf'
lircd: Inappropriate ioctl for device
lircd: lircd(udp) ready

Still trying to get data from HDHR, for final LIRC texting, though.

[stuartm]

Nigel, Is this going anywhere?

[Nigel]

No action by me. Gut feeling is that disabling one type of remote is wrong - event system should be able to support both simultaneously.