LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control
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lirc-0.8.6.tar.bz2 - 714 kBreleased: 13-Sep-2009supported kernels: 2.6.31
lirc-0.8.6.tar.gz - 978 kBreleased: 13-Sep-2009
lirc-0.8.5.tar.bz2 - 700 kBreleased: 21-May-2009supported kernels: 2.6.29
lirc-0.8.5.tar.gz - 952 kBreleased: 21-May-2009
lircrc_config-0.1.1.tar.gz - 238 kBreleased: 09-Mar-2002
xrc-0.6.5.tar.gz - 232 kBreleased:
17-May-2007
xrc-0.6.4.tar.bz2 - 188 kBreleased:
29-Jan-2003
xirw-0.4.2.tar.bz2 - 46 kBreleased:
26-Jan-2003
xirw-0.4.1.tar.gz - 38 kBreleased:
04-Mar-2001
remotes.tar.bz2
all supported config files
The files are tared and gzipped. If you have problems to
download, try shift + left mouse button.
Supported Hardware
Home-brew:
Serial Port Receivers
Serial Port Transmitters
Parallel Port Hardware
FTDI
based USB IR receiver
USB-IR-Boy
USBtiny
Universal Infrared Receiver (aka Irman)
UIRT2
Igor Cesko's USB IR Receiver
Igorplug-UDP
CARACA
Sound card input
Sound card input (ALSA)
Linksys NSLU2
avrlirc
These are explanations of how to build LIRC compatible
hardware.
Commercially available:
Anir Multimedia Magic
ATI/NVidia/X10 I amp; II RF Remote
Bluetooth mobile phones
Creative iNFRA CDROM
Creative Infra Receiver/CIMR100
Creative LiveDrive
Iguanaworks serial port transceiver
Iguanaworks USB transceiver
InnovationOne's COMMANDIR USB Transceiver
Ira (InfraRed Adapter)
IRdeo
Irman
IR Trans
Logitech/AST
X10 MP3 Anywhere RF receiver
Packard Bell receiver
PCMAK
PixelView RemoteMaster
Pinnacle Systems PCTV (pro) receiver
REALmagic by Sigma Designs
Remotec Multimedia PC Remote BW6130
Sasem OnAir Remocon-V
Silitek SM-1000
Sound Blaster Extigy/Audigy 2 NX
Soundgraph iMON
Streamzap PC Remote
Tira
Windows Media Center Remote (new and old version)
X10 MouseRemote
Remote controls bundled with TV
cards
Miro PCTV receiver
Technisat
MediaFocus I
IrDA compatible hardware
Built-in IrDA ports (SIR mode, available in notebooks)
Actisys Act200L
Actisys Act220L(+)
Tekram Irmate 210
PDAs:
Agenda
VR3
HP iPAQ
Sharp Zaurus
Supported remote controls
Planned (check CVS):
-
Currently not supported:
Redrat2
Slink-e
Zoltix GenieTV
Keyspan Presentation Remote
Keyspan Digital Media Remote
Ruwido Cyberclick
Contributions for the latter are welcome.
LIRC Links
Portuguese LIRC page
LIRC homepage - by Ralph Metzler
The original.
Jukebox patch - a patch for jukebox 1.08
made by Pablo d´Angelo
LIRC homepage - by Heinrich Langos
You will find the old LIRC mailing list archive and the most
up-to-date versions of irxevent and xmode2 there.
The Linux-IrDA Project
old LIRC mailing list archive
Linux Related Links
Documentation:
Linux Documentation Project
Woven Goods for Linux - also with German documents
Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial
Linux Tips amp; Tricks
Linux Distributors:
Slackware - the mother of all Distributions
RedHat
Debian
Caldera OpenLinux
Stampede - 586 optimized, under development
S.u.S.E. - German
Mandriva(Previously Mandrake)
Miscellaneous:
siliconpenguin.com - The Embedded Linux Authority
www.freshmeat.net - A great place for searching for Linux Applications
www.linuxberg.com - A Newcomer, have a look at it
www.linuxos.org - Linux OS
www.linux.org
www.kernel.org - Linux Kernel Website
www.linux.de - German Linux Site
www.gnu.org - GNU Webpage
www.gimp.org - The Pictureeditor under Linux
www.xfree86.org - XFree86
www.kde.org - KDE
www.gnome.org - GNOME
LinuxBazis - Linux search engine
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What is LIRC ?
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send
infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used
remote controls.
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected
to the serial or parallel port. Descriptions how to build
this hardware can be found here. Current versions of LIRC
also support a variety of other hardware. An up-to-date
list of all supported devices and the status of the
according drivers is available on the left.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon that
will decode IR signals received by the device drivers and
provide the information on a socket. It will also accept
commands for IR signals to be sent if the hardware
supports this. The second daemon program called lircmd
will connect to lircd and translate the decoded IR signals
to mouse movements. You can e.g. configure X to use your
remote control as an input device.
The user space applications will allow you to control your
computer with your remote control. You can send X events
to applications, start programs and much more on just one
button press. The possible applications are obvious:
Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV tuner card or
CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or
satellite tuner with your computer, etc. I've heard that
MP3 players are also quite popular these days.
Supported remote controls
Here are some config files for supported
remote controls. These config files will work with
home-brew receivers (except the UIR/Irman), the Anir
Multimedia Magic, the Packard Bell receiver, built-in IrDA
ports and the Slink-e unless something else is indicated
within the file. Files ending in quot;.irman quot; will
only work with the UIR and Irman. Any other receivers will
only work with the remotes they are bundled with.
If you can't find your remote control here it does not
mean that your remote control is not supported but 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.
Please send me your config file if you add a new remote
control.
News
[13-Sep-2009]
lirc-0.8.6 released.
[21-May-2009]
lirc-0.8.5 released.
[12-Oct-2008]
lirc-0.8.4 released.
[04-May-2008]
lirc-0.8.3 released.
[09-Jun-2007]
lirc-0.8.2 released.
[07-Jan-2007]
lirc-0.8.1 released.
[25-Feb-2006]
A new 0.4.4 maintenance
release of libirman fixes incompatibilities
with gcc 4.0.
[21-Jan-2006]
lirc-0.8.0 released.
[14-Aug-2005]
lirc-0.7.2 released.
[17-Apr-2005]
lirc-0.7.1 released.
[07-Nov-2004]
lirc-0.7.0 released. In memoriam Manuel Estrada Sainz.
[04-Apr-2004]
I have made a 0.4.3 maintenance release of
libirman. This should fix incompatibilities with 2.6
kernels.
[12-Jul-2003]
article in c't issue 15/03 features LIRC's UDP driver.
[03-May-2003]
New lirc-xmms-plugin released.
[01-Feb-2003]
New releases of xirw, xrc and the lirc-xmms-plugin
are available.
[06-Oct-2002]
lirc-0.6.6 released.
[26-Jan-2002]
lirc-0.6.5 released.
[23-Jan-2002]
lircrc_config-0.1.0 released.
[11-Nov-2000]
www.lirc.org online.
[10-Nov-2000]
The REALmagic remote control that is bundled with
Hollywood Plus DVD cards does work with the PixelView
RemoteMaster driver. You will just need the proper
config file from CVS.
[19-Oct-2000]
My LIRC article was published in the c't netherlands.
[18-Sep-2000]
Tonu Raitviir has added support for Chronos Video
Shuttle II TV card.
[26-Aug-2000]
There's a c't
article about LIRC.
[23-Aug-2000]
Hans-Hermann Redenius has contributed a IRdeo
device. Receiving of IR signals already works. I will
add code for sending as soon as I find some free time.
[23-Aug-2000]
Konrad Riedel has added support for CARACA
[10-Aug-2000]
An article about LIRC published in the Linux
Magazin.
[21-Jul-2000]
lirc-0.6.1 released.
[19-Jun-2000]
New xmms plugin released.
[02-Apr-2000]
lirc-0.6.0 released.
[03-Mar-2000]
Milan Pikula has provided a driver for the SIR (serial
infrared) mode of IrDA ports available in many
notebooks. It's available now through CVS.
[30-Apr-1999]
LIRC now has a CVS tree at gdev.net!
[29-Apr-1999]
First
test code for Fly Video 98 TV cards available.
[03-Apr-1999]
A patch to add
Avermedia TV98 support to lirc-0.5.5pre8 has
been provided by Ryan Gammon.
[23-Mar-1999]
LIRC X11AMP Plugin by Carl van Schaik.
[07-Mar-1999]
First
test code for Hauppauge remote controls
available.
[03-Mar-1999]
lirc-0.5.4 released. Major homepage update.
[02-Mar-1999]
There is a Windows port of LIRC available at the
WinLIRC
Homepage.
[03-Feb-1999]
Got it! I have the specs for the Hauppauge
remote control. :-) Many thanks go to
Roger Hardiman for providing the necessary
information and Peter Stevenson for finding Roger.
[31-Jan-1999]
Recently a Tekram IRMate IR-210 fell
into my hands. I managed to send IR signals to my
satellite receiver using my linux box within 1 hour!
Receiving of IR signals was also possible but has some
limitations.
You can see this as a motivation for you to work on support
for IrDA compliant hardware as I don't have the time
to do it myself.
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Christoph Bartelmus: 13-Sep-2009
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