sc-controller is limited in the keys it can send

[rah2501]

I'm trying to set my controller to send keys which aren't ordinarily on the keyboard to act as a push-to-talk button for Mumble without interfering with the operation of other software. I've been trying to set it to send the F13 key but the scc-daemon crashes:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/scc-daemon", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/scc-daemon", line 32, in main
    daemon.debug()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/sccdaemon.py", line 1097, in debug
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/sccdaemon.py", line 656, in run
    fn()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/drivers/sc_by_cable.py", line 81, in _timer
    self.input(self._last_tup)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/drivers/sc_dongle.py", line 214, in input
    self.mapper.input(self, old_state, idata)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/mapper.py", line 451, in input
    self.generate_events()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/mapper.py", line 458, in generate_events
    self.keyboard.pressEvent(self.keypress_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scc/uinput.py", line 553, in pressEvent
    self.scanEvent(Scans[i])
KeyError: <Keys.KEY_F13: 183>

It seems that there is a static list of key scan codes which the scc-daemon emulates:

https://github.com/kozec/sc-controller/blob/ce92c773b8b26f6404882e9209aff212c4053170/scc/uinput.py#L58

Going deeper into uinput, it seems scc-daemon is sending keyboard scan codes when it could be sending raw key events, as shown in the example from the kernel documentation:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/input/uinput.rst?id=a38fd8748464831584a19438cbb3082b5a2dab15#n95

I'm wondering if there's a particular reason for scc-daemon to send scan codes instead of key events? Sending key events would eliminate the need for the restricted list of static key codes and scc-daemon could send any key at all from its list of key codes generated from the kernel headers.

[kozec]

I'm wondering if there's a particular reason for scc-daemon to send scan codes instead of key events?

It seemd like best solution at the time (what's code phrase for 'i can't remember why I did it like this'). I don't have any problem with changing so it works better.