Generate hardware key events from a remote shell session
A simple utility that utilises the uinput kernel driver to emulate local keyboard events bases on ncurses input events.
It uses the uinput python module which you can get from pypi if it is not available for your distribution.
The script is not able to emulate all key events, but it should be able to control a basic shell, and for example xbmc running on the raspberry pi.
You should make sure the uinput module is loaded and that you have permissions to inject events to the uinput device. Adding uinput to /etc/modules can be a good idea.
You may need to run this script before the application in question is launched. That was my experience with xbmc, which is a bit of a pain. One way to work with this is to have a screen session with the script always running which you can switch to when you want to control the target device.
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