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LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of
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many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. LIRC is released under
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the GNU General Public License. It consists of lircd and lircmd daemons.
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Configuring lircd (the LIRC daemon)
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1. Check if there is already a config file in /etc/lircd.conf. If not,
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2. Check if there is a config file available for your remote control at
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the LIRC homepage and if so, copy it to /etc/lircd.conf. If not,
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3. Start irrecord (close all applications that access /dev/lirc first)
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and follow the instructions given to you by this program. Copy the
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resulting file to /etc/lircd.conf. If you have trouble creating a
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working config file, please read the chapter about adding new remote
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controls -- http://www.lirc.org/html/help.html#new_remote
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Q: How can I use the infrared remote shipped with the tv card ?
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In the 2.6 kernels the remote simply is registered as keyboard input device
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within the linux input layer. When using the saa7134 driver it "just works",
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with bttv you'll have to load either ir-kbd-gpio or ir-kbd-i2c depending on
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your TV card. If in doubt just try both. Have a look at /proc/bus/input/devices
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file to see whenever the device is present or not.
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With the driver loaded the IR just works like a additional keyboard. The numbers
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are mapped to the keypad keys. Depending on the X-Servers keyboard configuration
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(try to pick a multimedia keyboard) other keys like the ones for volume control
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might work too.
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Q: But I want use lircd for IR input.
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No problem, you can do that too:
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1. Get a recent lircd version with linux input layer support. The 0.6.6
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release is too old, a cvs snapshot or a 0.7 pre-release should do. You
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only need to build the lircd daemon + tools, no lirc kernel drivers
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needed. Take care that the dev/input driver is included when building
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lircd (either ./configure --with-driver=any to simply include all drivers
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or --with-driver=devinput).
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2. Load the evdev module (which is part of the linux input layer). Check
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/proc/bus/input/devices to see which eventn device the IR input device has.
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3. Start the daemon this way:
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/usr/sbin/lircd -H dev/input -d /dev/input/eventn.
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