Lirc.org Website Review

These are explanations of how to build LIRC compatible hardware. LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. Recent linux kernels makes it possible to use some IR remote controls as regular input devices. Sometimes this makes LIRC redundant. However, LIRC offers more flexibility and functionality and is still the right tool in a lot of scenarios. The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon which decodes IR signals received by the device drivers and provides the information on a socket. It also accepts commands for IR signals to be sent if the hardware supports this. The user space applications allows you to control your computer with your remote control. You can send X11 events to applications, start programs and much more on just one bu*ton press. The possible applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV This is about 2500 devices and counting. These devices should work with the general drivers or (if it lacks timing info) the driver used If you can't find your remote control here it does not mean that your remote control is not supported. It's just that there is no config file for it yet. All remote controls that are supported by learning remote controls i.e., almost any, should also work with LIRC. Besides a remote control you also need a capture device to read the data from the remote. Former versions focussed on home-brew capture hardware connected to the serial or parallel port. Descriptions how to build such hardware can be found here. Current versions of LIRC also support a broad range of other hardware. As a starter, you can use the kernel built-in support for many USB dongles and similar. Besides this LIRC supports basically any conceivable way to capture your data including serial devices, parallel ports, sound input etc. You can see lirc-0.8.7 released. After more than 10 years LIRC has a new maintainer. Jarod Wilson is taking over. Good luck for the next 10