About:
LIRC is a package that supports receiving and sending IR signals of the most common IR remote controls. It contains a daemon that decodes and sends IR signals, a mouse daemon that translates IR signals to mouse movements, and a couple of user programs that allow to control your computer with a remote control.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release is an update to support kernel versions up to and including 2.6.25. It adds support for several devices like the Samsung USB IR Receive, Soundgraph iMON IR/LCD, IRLink receiver, VLSystem MPlay Blast, Hauppauge HVR-1300, and many more. irsend now supports a SIMULATE command to simulate IR events.

Author:
Christoph Bartelmus [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.63/10.00 (5 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.lirc.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lirc/lirc-0.8.3.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lirc/lirc-0.8.3.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.lirc.org/software/NEWS
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://lirc.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]ilarchive/forum.php?forum_name=lirc-list
Mirror site:
http://lirc.techspice.com/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia, System :: Hardware, System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.8.3	04-May-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.8.3	Major feature enhancements	04-May-2008 21:04
0.8.2	Major feature enhancements	10-Jun-2007 06:43
0.8.1	Major feature enhancements	08-Jan-2007 18:37
0.8.0	Major feature enhancements	21-Jan-2006 12:10
0.7.2	Major feature enhancements	15-Aug-2005 10:45
0.7.1	Minor feature enhancements	17-Apr-2005 14:34
0.7.0	Major feature enhancements	07-Nov-2004 22:05
0.6.6	Minor feature enhancements	06-Oct-2002 11:06
0.6.5	Minor feature enhancements	26-Jan-2002 19:01
0.6.4	Minor feature enhancements	15-Aug-2001 15:40

 Articles referencing this project

• Lessons in Packaging Linux Applications
  by Billy Biggs and Doug Bell , in Editorials
  Sat, Sep 20th 2003 00:00
  

 Comments

[»] funny effect
by kantale - Mar 7th 2003 05:28:46

I would like to post a funny effect of lirc. I own a Pinnacle Pro IR receiver plugged in the COM1 port (modem is in COM 0). The remote control works only if modem is connected with the power supply, otherwise has a "crazy" behaviour..

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[»] terrible
by Gazza - May 9th 2002 19:44:03

I can't install the program. What do I do???

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