Can lirc read from a socket?

[David M. <da...@ju...>]

A little background:

Attempting to be resourceful on a limited budget, I've salvaged an old
Powerbook G4 to use as a remote frontend for MythTV (the backend server
is a real linux machine, HTPC class, on a different TV).  I have a
Microsoft MCE remote with an eHome IR Tranceiver plugged into the USB
port on it.  Running the machine in Linux, the remote works great, but
it has an ATI video card, and the proprietary drivers needed to make it
talk to the S-video Out port have never been ported to PPC.  Running it
in Mac OS X, the video works great, but not the remote.

Lirc is documented to only work on OS X with either the audio or network
drivers, and not having a spare IR diode to build the audio device, and
not having a spare linux box to dedicate as a remote receiver (heck, I'd
just use it as the Myth box if I had one ;) ) that kind of left out lirc
initially.  I've managed to find a couple commercial packages for Mac OS
X that talk to the eHome receiver, however, they only seem to support
that little white Apple Remote, which doesn't have nearly enough buttons
on it to be remotely useful for MythTV.

So now, my problem:

Not being afraid of writing a little code, I figured I would attempt to
write an OS X driver for the eHome device and hook lirc up to it.  So
far, I have successfully created a user-space daemon which connects to
the eHome and grabs the data.  Being that it's userspace, I figured the
easiest way to get the data into lirc would be the UDP driver.  I swiped
the readdata routine out of the linux lirc_mceusb2 driver, and attempted
to use that and modify the data to match what it looked like the UDP
driver was expecting (also found
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=F35F489E75C11C4C88D1E18BC4EA39911413BD%40UKLON0424.uk.deloitte.com
) and send it all to localhost on the udp port.  But I can't seem to get
it to work.  Putting some extra debug lines in hw_udp.c, it's obvious
that the data is making it to lirc, it's just not processing it for some
reason.  Is there any sample code out there anywhere from a working
program that sends UDP to lirc?  I've been Googling for hours and coming
up blank.

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

(And yes, the source for this will all get posted somewhere once I get
it working -- I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to use a
non-Apple remote on a Mac)

-- 
Dave