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I have a remote control IR USB receiver, but it acts just like a normal keyboard. I'm reading the input from /dev/input/event3 to handle events. Because of this I need a way for the TTY console to ignore this "keyboard" device without disabling the USB device entirely.

So currently when I press buttons on the remote control it types characters into the TTY console, which is undesirable.

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  • In X11 you can use `xinput` to disable input devices. – ctrl-alt-delor Nov 18 '18 at 16:03
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    `evtest --grab /dev/input/event3` will show the events and not allow others to see them. Add the ioctl EVIOCGRAB to your reading code. – meuh Nov 18 '18 at 16:06
  • BTW, that exact same question has been asked either here or on superuser not so long ago. – dirkt Nov 19 '18 at 07:37
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    Was it https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/388733/, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/451370/ , https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/381944/ , or https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/343305/ ? – JdeBP Nov 19 '18 at 08:25

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