Re: [WinLIRC] lirc/winlirc portability questions

[Scott B. <ba...@ui...>]

>1) I can't access my minidisc deck. 
>
>I can control my cd player but not my minidisc deck. This is the same 
>situation like with lirc-0.6.4, that has been solved in lirc-0.6.5pre1.
Maybe 
>there is a solution, that can be added to winlirc ?
	I'm surprised that a sony device doesn't seem to be working, don't they
both use the same protocol?  Anyway I haven't seen lirc 0.6.5pre1, if
something was fixed please let me know what the change was.  I'm planning
on keeping current with lirc, but i'm a little too busy right now.  I'm
assuming that you already know that Sony devices like the command to be
repeated a few times.

>2) Protocol
>Looking at the code of winlirc I couldn't find any of the keywords of the 
>lirc protocol. Also transmit.cpp shows a completely different way, how to 
>send IR commands. Maybe winlirc doesn't support the lirc protocol ? If so,
is 
>the transmit.cpp example the only way to send IR commands ?
	Currently, it doesn't suppport the command structure of LIRC for incoming
commands.  There are two ways of telling winLIRC to send a command from
another application:
	1) call transmit.exe with the appropriate parameters
	2) integrate the code from transmit.cpp into your application
		(This basically just means using WM_COPYDATA)

Jim Paris just recently put the code to accept commands via TCP/IP into the
CVS version, but I have yet to add the code that makes winlirc interpret
those commands.  I've been planning that for the next release, but I
haven't had time to work on it.