Re: Sending infrared signals with a FTDI based USB IR emitter

[Nathan N. <nn...@ne...>]

If you have an existing remote, have you tried just using irrecord? or do you not have a IR receiver?

-- Nathan

On 03/05/2013 04:52 AM, Sylvain LG wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've bought a FTDI USB IR Blaster (http://www.irblaster.info/usb_blaster.html). I would like to use it to send IR
> signals to my audio amplifier.
>
> I've built Lirc and libftdi  from sources since I use an ARM based mini-pc.
>
> The process is described here : http://www.huitsing.nl/irftdi/
>
> But Albert Huitsing explains to test the device:
>
>     be sure to have a valid |/etc/lircd.conf| ready (see LIRC website for this)
>
> and later:
>
>     Transmitting is much more critical than receiving. In order to be able to transmit correctly a very accurate
>     lircd.conf file is needed!
>
>
> At this point, I'm lost. I can't figure out how to write a correct lircd.conf file.
>
> At this time, my device is plugged and recognized by the system. Lirc is built, configured to use the FTDI driver.
> Here comes an example of an IR code to control my amplifier:
>
>     [INPUT]0000 006D 0000 0024 0156 00A9 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 003F 0016 0015
>     0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 0015 0016 003F 0016 0015 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016
>     003F 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 003F 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 0015 0016 003F 0016 003F 0016 003F
>     0016 003F 0016 05E6 0156 0055 0016 02F8
>
>
>
> Could anyone explain me how to write a lircd.conf file in order to send the previous IR code with irsend?
>
> thanks a lot,
>
> Sylvain
>
>
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