Using IR Multimedia Remote

[curious_pi]

Hi,
I had purchased a IR remote a few moths back. Although the cover says Windows remote it works with all Linux distros out of the box. It gets detected as a keyboard. Since the only player which supports hardware acceleration is omxplayer I am stuck with it. I tried using the remote with omxplayer but none of the important keys work.

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$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9514 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 413c:2107 Dell Computer Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Wireless Mouse M305
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0951:1643 Kingston Technology DataTraveler G3 4GB
[b]Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1d57:ad02 Xenta [/b]

Any ideas ??

[DougieLawson]

You need to write a program to read your new HID (human input device aka keyboard) and pass the characters you read to omxplayer. It won't be an automatic process (I wouldn't expect that). Time to a) read up about what interfaces omxplayer provides for external control and b) sharpen your coding pencil.

[gkreidl]

If it's discovered as a keyboard, does it send keyboard characters to the command line (try number keys, for example). If it does, you can configure omxplayer to use the keyboard commands sent from your IR remote with the
--key-config <file>
option. You'll find details on github about creating a config file.

[PiGraham]

You need to write a program to read your new HID (human input device aka keyboard) and pass the characters you read to omxplayer. It won't be an automatic process (I wouldn't expect that). Time to a) read up about what interfaces omxplayer provides for external control and b) sharpen your coding pencil.

Really?
An HID keyboard device should just inject key events as if you typed on a keyboard.

Is it detected as a keyboard though?

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Bus 001 Device 007: ID 1d57:ad02 Xenta

[PiGraham]

A post about this device here:
http://forum.osmc.tv/showthread.php?tid=11868

Could there be a problem with USB power? I have a Cherry keyboard that will not work on a Model A+ but is fine via a powered hub.
The + model USB has a power setting.

Can you try it with a powered hub?
If that works you could try increasing the current capability of the USB port (AFAIK B+ ONLY). See here
https://projects.drogon.net/testing-set ... erry-pi-b/

[curious_pi]

Under Ubuntu XBMC detected the remote and was working as intended. Is it possible to dual boot XBMC and Debian Raspbian ? Never done that before.


Also, I am having a problem with my USB flash drive, When I keep it plugged in while booting it doesnt get mounted. I need to to unplug it and plug it in.

[curious_pi]

Installed Raspbmc and the remote is working perfectly. Thanks to all.