Capturing QKeyEvents from /dev/input/event1 in embedded linux device (EGLFS)

[Chandana H C]

Hi,

I'm trying to get QKeyEvents on keypress/keyrelease on linux embedded device(EGLFS) which uses custom keypad.
/dev/input/event1 is the keyevent file.

With evtest the output is as expected.
But in the Qt application running on EGLFS platform, the eventfilter detects the event type as QEvent::SockAct whenever key is pressed/released on custom keypad. The expected event type is QEvent::KeyPress/QEvent::KeyRelease which I'm not able to get.

I've tried setting the below environment variables,

QT_QPA_EVDEV_KEYBOARD_PARAMETERS=/dev/input/event1;grab=1
QT_QPA_GENERIC_PLUGINS=evdevmouse,evdevkeyboard
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs
QT_QPA_EGLFS_DISABLE_INPUT = 1

Before setting these variables, I wasn't able to get any event on key press/release. But after setting these, it is detected as QEvent::SockAct.

Please suggest what needs to be set to get QKeyEvent on key press/release. Qt Version 5.14 running on embedded linux.