MythTV Reloaded – Day 16

I guess I got a little distracted today.  In doing some of my research for using LIRC with my iMon IR receiver that is part of the Antec Fusion 430 Black case, I ran across a couple of web pages that discussed getting the LCD screen working with LCDProc.  So that’s what I did today.  Now when I go through the MythTV menus my LCD screen shows the menu entry that’s highlighted.  If I have a show open it’ll tell the name of the show and the description, the progress bar, and other stuff like that.  If nothing important is being displayed it will show the time.  It works very well in my opinion.  That’s one thing that I never got working under Ubuntu.  The LCD screen was just glowing blue but not displaying anything, not even the time.

In other news, I was playing around with mplayer some today and found that all of the transport controls work there just fine.  What is going on with LIRC and MythTV?  I’ve even tried to create my own lircd.conf file using irrecord.  I found another program similar to ir-keyboard that I mentioned yesterday, called evtest.  It also recognizes all of the buttons on my MCE-emulating Harmony remote.  There must be something simple that I’m missing…

Oh well, time for bed.  More work to do tomorrow.  It seems like I’m so close but can’t quite get to where I want to be…