RE: Temporarily disabling lirc output

[Buzz <bu...@os...>]

Why not have two different lircd.conf files, one that has all remote buttons
mapped to a code, and the other that has only 1 mapped.   

* In the first file, one of the buttons has a code that triggers irexec to
run a bash script that a) copies the other lircd.conf into place over the
first and b) restarts lircd.    
* In the second lircd.conf, only one button is mapped to a code at all, and
that one code triggers a very similar irexec based bash script that a)
copies the original lircd.conf back into place, and b) restarts lircd.

That aught to do it.  :-)

Buzz.

-----Original Message-----
From: lir...@li...
[mailto:lir...@li...] On Behalf Of n0dalus
Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:43 PM
To: lir...@li...
Subject: Temporarily disabling lirc output

Hi,

What I am wanting to do is simple, however there seems no easy way to
achieve it.
I want to be able to press a button on my remote, and have lirc go into
"standby" until I press another button to turn it on again.
During this period of time, I don't want lircd to output any remote codes,
however I still need it to be running (so any programs using it don't close
connections to it).
Because I use my DVD player remote to control my computer as well as my DVD
player, I occasionaly want to make my computer ignore me doing anything with
it. At the moment this essentially involves me putting the receiver under
the keyboard for a while, but I was wondering if there was an easier way to
do this.
Is there a way to do this with modes in lircrc? The only thing I can think
of is to patch lirc to have new flags, something like 'standby'
= (on|off|toggle).
Any ideas?

n0dalus.


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