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How to build a simple but cool IR (Infra Red) receiver. The software for Linux. Setserial /dev/ttySx uart none depmod -a modprobe lirc_serial lircd. How to build a simple. You can use Lirc and for Windows you can. Keep track of a cool way to build this circuit directly inside a serial connector.

The discussion page may contain suggestions. This guide explains how to set up Kodi to understand a universal remote's commands (so not the standard MCE remotes that work out of the box). You obviously need some hardware device for this that reads infrared commands. I'm using a cheap (+- 10 euro) device called the IRMan. You can find a list of supported devices. Contents • • • • • • • • 1 Download and install Lirc First you have to download and install Lirc. If you're using Ubuntu or Debian you can just type apt-get install lirc. Salesforce Video Tutorial Download on this page.

If you don't have a lirc package in you distribution or (in my case) a buggy version, it's pretty easy to compile lirc from source::~$ wget:~$ tar -jxf lirc-0.9.4b.tar.bz2:~$ cd lirc-0.9.4b:~/lirc-0.9.4b$ aclocal && autoheader && autoconf:~/lirc-0.9.4b$./configure --with-x --with-driver=irman (or whatever remote you are using, check./configure --help for supported ones - for homebrew serial IR use --driver=serial):~/lirc-0.9.4b$ make && sudo make install Next comes the interesting part. 2 Configure Lirc to understand your remote's commands You have downloaded and installed Lirc and are now ready to set it up. First, check if your IR receiver is already preconfigured. Ubuntu stores the configuration files in ' /usr/share/lirc/remotes but you can also find them in the source tree in the remotes directory. If you can find you remote, copy the config file to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and open the file with a text editor. Delete the lines between begin codes and end codes.