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What are the options for irrecord in LIRC?
The primary options are –driver and usually also –device (some drivers does not need –device). These could be verified using mode2(1) if irrecord runs into trouble.
Can you use LIRC to send infrared signals?
Generally speaking everything that can receive or send infrared signals can be supported by LIRC. The project began with support for home-brew receivers and transmitters for the serial port and later support for similar hardware for the parallel port was added.
How to setup LIRC-Linux Infrared remote control?
LIRC – Linux Infrared Remote Control. Configuration guide. About this guide. This guide tries to describe the basic configuration steps for commonly used hardware. It’s focused on the basic usage scenario to get the remote up and running, the more advanced features are not covered.
Why does irrecord not recognize my infrared remote?
There may be cases where irrecord simply will not recognize a remote. or does so only with great difficulty. If that is the case, it probably means that either the batteries are dead in that remote, in which case you should restart the irrecord program after changing the batteries, or that the remote is not compatible with your infrared receiver.
Where is the IR pulse data stored in LIRC?
This is configured using command line options which eventually are stored in lirc_options.conf. This is described in Determine driver and device. To convert IR pulse data to key symbols lircdneeds a lircd.confconfiguration file.
Is it possible to use LIRC as a remote control?
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.