Re: LIRC Add-On for Firefox?

[Corey T. <joh...@ya...>]

I do not know much about LIRC programming specifically, but I'm guessing  there 
is some client API that can be leveraged from Firefox in order to  read IR 
inputs from LIRCD..

I'm not familiar with the approach you are talking about but it sounds  like it 
could work, but only within an X Window based desktop  environment..

I'm thinking the Add-On would leverage the lirc client API such that it  could 
be compiled on other platforms such as Windows or OS X, in  addition to 
Linux/Unix..

The question would be how would LIRC events be exposed to Firefox.. Via  some 
custom extension to the DOM? Via some client-side JavaScript  library?

Does anyone know of any examples (preferably open code that I can  peruse) of 
Firefox Add-Ons that are able to expose input from external  hardware to the 
browser?

Thanks,

CT


----- Original Message ----
> From: Paul Menzel <pau...@us...>
> To: lir...@li...
> Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 4:19:05 PM
> Subject: Re: LIRC Add-On for Firefox?
> 
> Am Mittwoch, den 15.12.2010, 12:15 -0800 schrieb Corey Taylor:
> > Does  anyone know of a LIRC Add-On for Firefox?
> > 
> > If there isn't one,  has any one ever proposed/planned to write a Firefox 
>plug-in 
>
> > that would  be able to listen to LIRC events and pass them on to web 
> >  applications?
> > 
> > One obvious application for this could be a  remote controlled in-browser 
>media 
>
> > playback app..
> > 
> > Or  an in-browser remote control configuration interface..
> > 
> > Does  anyone have any interest in exploring/discussing this further?
> 
> Sorry, I  do not get your proposal. I thought the X applications and LIRC
> do not  interact, but that LIRC forwards the events somehow to X (I do
> not know the  terms) and that X sends these events to the applications.
> 
> So no Add-On is  needed. Just set up Firefox to react on certain X
> events.
> 
> 
> Thanks  and sorry for my ignorance,
> 
> Paul
>