Multimedia IR Remote question

[chad1979]

(1st Feb, 2013 05:40 AM)CurlyMo Wrote:  It is possible but don't have time to fully explain it. I will create a separate guide for this later.

Did this guide get created?

Completely new to this xbmc/pi thing...so forgive me if this is a stupid question..

First off, I want to be able to use an IR remote and be able to type with it..for example, I have a USB IR receiver and an old remote from a vizio bluray player that has a qwerty keyboard on it...the receiver receives a signal from the remote because I see it "light up" when i press a button on the remote.

I want to do this because my son is a quadpalegic and what little independence he has comes from being able to control things through a program I maintain for him that conects to a usbirt.

Is this possible with the current state of xbmc/xbian?

Not sure if this matters, but here is the output from lsusb

I: Bus=0003 Vendor=147a Product=e031 Version=0111
N: Name="Formosa21 IR603 HID MCE"
P: Phys=usb-bcm2708_usb-1.3.4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3.4/1-1.3.4:1.0/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event3
B: PROP=0
B: EV=10001f
B: KEY=4837fff 72ff32d bf544446 0 0 1 20f90 8b17c000 677bfa d9415fed e09effdf 1cfffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: REL=40
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10

It's probably worth noting that they remote that came with that reciever sorta works..i can navigate menus and such, but I'm wanting to use another remote so that, for example, in the youtube search dialog, he can type with the usbirt.

Thanks