drothlis/stb-tester — pull request #26 by szemate (2013-05-17 18:45:30+00:00)
Title: stbt remote: New command line tool to send RCU commands with PC keyboard

This is useful when multiple set-top-boxes are under test in the same
room, and it is not safe to use the remote controller shipped with the
box to control it manually because the IR signals are received by multiple
boxes.

The tool uses the same remote control implementations as `stbt run` and
`stbt record`.

A keymap file is required to save mappings of keyboard keys to remote
control keys. The keymap file can be recorded using the tool's
'recording mode' but it was designed to make it easy to create one from
scratch manually. See `stbt remote --help` for detailed information.

As `curses` library waits for 2 seconds after receiving Escape to
read additional characters, mapping the Escape key is not advisable in
this implementation.

A YouView-related keymap file has been added to the internal uitests
repository.