[mythtv-users] controlling mythtv using the /d

Bruce C. Dillahunty bdillahu at peachbush.com
Thu Jan 29 20:13:57 EST 2004


dan wrote:
> Joseph, I believe you can already do this with LIRC. IIRC they have a net 
> driver. http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html#overview

This link to an "LIRC emulator" looks promising:

http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkutale1/en/lircemu/

Bruce

> 
> -dan
> 
> 
>>Joseph A. Caputo (jcaputo1 at comcast.net) wrote: 
>>
>>Either way, I suppose it might be possible to create a 'dummy' LIRC 
>>device that, instead of presenting config strings built from an IR 
>>signal, would simply be a FIFO that another (controller) process would 
>>write into, and which Myth or irxevent would read from.  You'd have to 
>>do a little bit of research into LIRC.
>>
>>An even better approach (if you're a programmer) would be to give Myth 
>>the ability to read commands from a pipe or FIFO.  Shouldn't be that 
>>hard now that the LIRC support & configurable user actions 
>>infrastructure is in.
>>
>>-JAC
>>
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