a few questions

[Aaron S. <aar...@ab...>]

A little background:

I've been spending the last couple weekends working controlling all my
AV equipment from my computer.  This started with simple rs232 control
of my receiver, then progressed into control-s control via a pic.  At
this point I've added control-s type ports to every piece of equipment I
own, and have that bus running to all the equipment and multiple rooms.

It's easy to send commands over that bus from the computer, but I've
been dreading trying to parse the demodulated IR signals for receiving.
   So, that's when I decided to start playing with lirc.

The PC I'm using here is an asus digimatrix, which lirc already has
support for.  I got that somewhat working, but not completely.  I am
able to see IR signals with xmode2, but I guess the onboard demodulator
is tuned to 36kHz so the digimatrix remote is the only one that's at all
reliable.

At this point I'm considering two options:  either add a port for a
demodulated signal to the digimatrix, or add some code on the PIC which
could send IR data to lircd in some useful format over the serial port.

So is there some ascii format for raw data I can send over the serial
port to have lircd do the parsing?  And is there a driver which will
simply listen on a serial port for that data, rather than need a raw
serial port (since the digimatrix has no real serial ports)?

-Aaron