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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Quite some time ago, phone companies began associating keys on the phone keypad with letters from the alphabet (associating a, b, and c with 2, d e and f with 3, etc.); today, most cell phones support text entry on a 10-digit keypad using this system, which is generally known as a "multitap" keyboard. As it turns out, quite a number of televison sets (and probably other devices) support this as well, through their infrared remotes. So, I've thrown together a set of macros to implement a "reverse multitap" keyboard -- e.g., press the "e" key, and Pierogi will emit two "3"s. Press "j", it will emit one "5". For "s", it will emit four "7"s, etc. Hopefully, this will let you use an actual keyboard for any device that supports multitap. If you'd like to try it out, you can enable the "Reverse Multitap Keyboard Macros" in the Preferences screen accessible from the menu.

In any case, I'm happy to finally have some sort of IR keyboard to offer folks!
Absolutely ingenious idea, especially for those "older" TV's, that doesn't support either bluetooth, or USB keyboards, yet, allow renaming things. PITA of writing everything via remote multitap is going to disappear, thanks to Pierogi

Of course, other updates are amazing too - I just wanted to highlight, how useful it is, for some users.

/Estel
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