LIRC Device Examples
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This article includes device specific examples of LIRC function configurations.
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Asus DH Deluxe series motherboard
Check the output of:
$ cat /dev/usb/hiddevX
where X is 0,1 or bigger, and press some buttons on remote. If characters result, then the device is working, follow steps:
1. In file /etc/conf.d/lircd.conf
add:
LIRC_DRIVER="dvico"
2. Restart lirc.service.
ASRock ION series (Nuvoton) quickstart
$ ln -s /usr/share/lirc/remotes/lirc_wb677/lircd.conf.wb677 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf # systemctl restart lirc
Logitech Wireless Presenter R400
The R400 Presenter can be used with default configuration from devinput. Follow the following steps to be able to use the following buttons: KEY_PAGEDOWN KEY_PAGEUP KEY_DISPLAYTOGGLE KEY_PRESENTATION
.
1. Copy the default devinput configuration which should work out of the box for the R400:
# cp /usr/share/lirc/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
2. Create the following Udev rule to create the correct symlink whenever you connect your presenter:
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-logitech-r400-lirc.rules
[Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/lircd --driver=devinput --device=/dev/input/ir
3. Create the lirc service configuration file to start the lirc service with the correct settings for your presenter whenever you want to transform it into a remote control:
/etc/systemd/system/lirc.service.d/logitech-r400.conf
[Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/lircd --driver=devinput --device=/dev/input/ir
3. Start lirc and use irw
to test whether your keys are recognised:
$ irw 000000008001006d 00 KEY_PAGEDOWN devinput 0000000080010068 00 KEY_PAGEUP devinput 00000000800101af 00 KEY_DISPLAYTOGGLE devinput 00000000800101a9 00 KEY_PRESENTATION devinput
4. Create your program-specific configurations as described here.
Serial Port "Home Brew" IR Receiver
1. Create a udev rule to give non-privleged users read/write access to the serial port. In this example, ttyS0 is used.
/etc/udev/rules.d/z98-serial.rules
# For serial port ttyS0 and LIRC KERNEL=="ttyS0",SUBSYSTEM=="tty",DRIVERS=="serial",MODE="0666"
2. Create the needed modprobe configs
/etc/modules-load.d/lirc_serial.conf
lirc_serial
/etc/modprobe.d/lirc_serial.conf
install lirc_serial /usr/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none && /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install lirc_serial options lirc_serial type=0 remove lirc_serial /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove lirc_serial && /sbin/modprobe -r lirc_dev
3. Install a custom systemd service file.
/etc/systemd/system/lirc.service
[Unit] Description=Linux Infrared Remote Control After=network.target [Service] Type=simple PIDFile=/run/lirc/lircd.pid ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /dev/lirc /dev/lircd /var/run/lirc/lircd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lircd -n -r -P /run/lirc/lircd.pid -d /dev/lirc0 -o /run/lirc/lircd ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/ln -sf /run/lirc/lircd /dev/lircd ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/ln -sf /dev/lirc0 /dev/lirc ExecReload=/bin/kill -SIGHUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
4. We still need the default tmpfiles to be created, so copy that config file to /etc/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf
.
# cp -a /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf
5. Create a ~/.lircrc
or a /etc/lirc/lircrc
file for system wide use.
6. Enable lirc.service and reboot or load the lirc_serial
kernel module and start lirc.service.
MCEUSB
Configuration file can be found here.
Streamzap USB Remote
Configuration files for LIRC as well as mplayer, mythtv and kodi are available for this remote at graysky's github repo.
X10
There is a dedicated wiki page with information about X10