LIRC driver
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[edit] Intro
- LIRC website
[edit] Architecture
Today the Tux sends only decoded RC5 codes (actually only the codes without the addresses).
We're thinking about making the Tux more versatile and ideally being seen as a universal receiver for LIRC (and emitter but one step at a time).
[edit] LIRC interface
We should try to reuse one of the hardware abstraction layers understood by Lirc to avoid to have to develop also the Lirc driver.
[edit] USB
Tux is connected via USB, one way would be to add a USB "device" in the fw of the dongle to present the Tux as e.g. an IgorPlug-USB.
Note that USBtiny receiver is also using the same protocol.
There is also the USB Ir Boy
[edit] Serial
The other solution is to use the current USB class and let the daemon emulating an interface understood by Lirc, e.g. a sw serial port (cf socat) and follow one of the protocols understood by Lirc.
For the basic RS232 receivers it appears Lirc samples directly an IR receiver via non-data lines of the serial port.
Forget it!
But the UIRT2 seems promising, in particular its serial protocol UIR and RAW handled by a PIC and what a PIC can do an Atmel should be capable of too ;-)
[edit] Tux side
Probably capabilities of the dongle are very limited so the Tux should already do a maximum of the protocol itself and the dongle should limit itself to the reconstruction of the RF small packets into USB packets.
[edit] Misc
irmenu : IrMenu is a program that allows to navigate a text menu using a remote control. Prompts are "displayed", that is, spoken, using your favorite text-to-speech program, such as IBM ViaVoice or festival.
