Philosophical question

[Tom H. <tom...@ad...>]

Lots of folks (including me) have no problem getting their remotes
to show nice output from mode2 with unique strings of pulses
of various lengths identifying button presses.

Yet the config file wants much more arcane information that
imposes some sort of "protocol" on the data. Getting from the
one to the other seems to involve much cryptic mysticism :-).

Is there any reason not to drive button recognition directly
off the sort of data that mode2 prints?

The different pulses could easily map to an "alphabet", and the
buttons to strings in that alphabet. Recognizing fixed constant
strings in a stream of data is something computers are pretty good
at - there are well known string matching algorithms which are
quite efficient.

Just curious.