Re: TBS 6920 remote

Simon Jones
2012-02-06T11:48:44Z

> Thanks. It seems that there was a bug in their driver which prevented
> some keys from working, but AFIACT it's fixed now. The code is GPL so is
> it just lack of interest/demand that's stopped it from going into the
> main kernel?

They have an NDA with a chip supplier so can't release the full
source, I think there is a binary blob somewhere that makes it so you
can't include them.

> I think I'll pass on having to maintain a 3rd party driver whenever the
> Debian kernel upgrades. The remote is missing some quite important keys
> like Play, so they seem to have only considered it for live viewing, not
> for PVRs. I'll probably end up buying a separate USB remote or
> continuing to use a portable keyboard.

I have an MCE remote, ebay has HP remote and receiver cheap enough,
they are also rc6 encoding so you can use one-for-all remote etc easy
enough, and drivers are in kernel so only a manor change to lirc to
get it working.

You don't have to use lirc but I couldn't be bothered trying to map
the keys in X.