Re: Fwd: [linux-usb-devel] USB IR receivers and evdev

[Jon S. <jon...@gm...>]

On 2/14/07, Vojtech Pavlik <vo...@su...> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:44:46AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > >Sending an IR signal involves things like setting the carrier frequency,
> > >duty cycle, and then writing a stream of timing values.
> > >I think that evdev in general is not the right interface for this.
> >
> > This could be worked into the evdev support. lircd.conf would contain
> > entries for the controls you wanted to send codes for. This info could
> > be used to created an uinput/evdev entry for the control. If evdev
> > supports pushing events, lircd could take the event and convert it to
> > IR info and push it down into the lirc drivers.
> >
> > We need Vojtech to tell us if we can push events into uinput.
>
> You can. However, the event direction depends on the event type: EV_KEY
> always goes from device to handler, EV_LED goes both ways. You'd have a
> new event type for sending out IR events: This is different from
> pressing a key. But it's trivial to add.

Does pushing an event work with an app using uinput?

>
> --
> Vojtech Pavlik
> Director SuSE Labs
>


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Jon Smirl
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