[mythtv-users] Control myth by MS Kinect !

[John Weekley]

  On 12/28/10 03:22 PM, Ian Latter wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>    Time for the Linux media people to have their Kinect fun
> :)  Please
> meet "klirc";
>
>
> http://midnightcode.org/projects/jupiter/code/klirc-1.0.tgz
>
> http://midnightcode.org/projects/jupiter/code/klirc-1.0.tgz.md5
>
>    The klirc program was authored to provide a gesture-to-lirc
> interface for the Kinect, under Linux. It will work with any
> LIRC
> interfacing program (such as XBMC, mplayer, etc), but has been
> built/tested for MythTV.
>
>    The user interface controls have been mapped identically
> to the
> recently released "KinEmote" (of which I am not affiliated).
>   I will
> publish an instruction/user guide for klirc, but for now the
> KinEmote
> guide is just as useful;
>
>
> http://kinemote.googlecode.com/files/KinEmote%200.3%20Instructions.pdf
>
>    In summary, the awake gesture is a "front-back" motion toward
> the Kinect with an open hand (palm facing the Kinect).
> Where the
> hand comes "back" to, in space, becomes the centre of the mid
> plane.
>
>      Front Plane:
>                    Centre:  Enter
>
>      Mid Plane:
>                    Left:       Left
>                    Right:    Right
>                    Up:        Up
>                    Down:   Down
>
>      Back Plane:
>                    Left:       Escape
>                    Right:     Pause/Play (P)
>                    Up:        Menu (M)
>                    Down:    [Ignore]
>
>
>    The klirc program reads from a configuration file, and has
> been
> written to generate the two LIRC configuration files that
> the user
> will require;
>
>    To generate the needed lircd.conf from this configuration,
> run;
>      ./klirc -l>  /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
>
>    To generate a mythtv LIRC RC file, run;
>      ./klirc -m>  ~/.lirc/mythtv
>
>    To run lircd as a UDP listener;
>      lircd --driver udp
>
>    To run klirc with a local configuration file (i.e. in the
> pwd), run;
>      ./klirc
>
>    The klirc program can run on either the MythTV Frontend or on
> a separate host.  If klirc isn't running on the MythTV Frontend
> server, then change the lirc_server entry in the klirc.cfg
> configuration file appropriately.
>
>    Additional details on building and running the program can be
> found in the README in the tar-ball.
>
>
> Enjoy.
>
>
> -
What's the "Flag Commercial" gesture? ;)