Linux Car player keyboard input
 

Hi Guys

A few years ago I started a project for an in car mp3 and video player. I have a mini-itx board, bootable sd, and a 2.5" composite input screen. Now I really need to get this project finished. I was going to use a large shell script I have written, along with mpd, mplayer, and conky for the display. I was going to use lirc/irexec to take the input, but then realised I would not be able to enter search strings very easily, as the remote would not have enough buttons. I have since bought a usb wireless xenta mini keyboard, which is ideal. My only trouble is now my shell script worked using irexec to enter a character into a monitored file and according to the character do a certain action. Now I have this kbd I am not sure how I am going to capture its input to enter certain characters into the input file.

Any help would be appreciated, and I am going to publish my project once it is complete

Regards
Matt Shaw
matt @ shagshaw dot com

dunno if it will work as intended...


ls -l /proc/self/fd/[0-2]
ls -l /dev/std*

so if your remote device act like keyboard you can redirect all stdin to a file :)