<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 18, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Ian Evans <<a href="mailto:dheianevans@gmail.com" class="">dheianevans@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks for indulging my question for a minute. I have to frequently provide phone support to an older relative who sometimes gets confused and anxious when dealing with their cable STB. I suddenly thought it'd be great if I could control a Pi with an IR transmitter and be able to send discrete power codes, etc. So I could say over the phone "I'm putting channel 61 on for you."<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">What sort of Linux library sends IR signals? I know LIRC receives, but what's the opposite? </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Some nights when I get the calls I would just love to go to a web page and pgm in channel 61@7pm, channel 8 @8pm.</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica; font-size: medium; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.</span><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class="">”</font></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://www.lirc.org" class="">http://www.lirc.org</a></font></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class="">Notice the “send” part. All you need is the right hardware.</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class="">Craig</font></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Verdana, Arial, Lucida, Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><br class=""></body></html>