lirc-0.7.2 Linux Infrared Remote Control

From: Christoph Bartelmus (usenet.4.lirc_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 08/14/05

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    LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.7.2

    Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
    Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
    (according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)

    LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
    of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
    Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
    http://www.lirc.org/

    Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
    or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
    on the LIRC homepage. 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 LIRC homepage.

    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.

    Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
    comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
    automatically.

    Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
    and there is still much to be done before LIRC becomes easily
    configurable and usable.
    For people with a little C/C++ knowledge this should already be possible
    with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.

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