Re: USB Receiver Advice?

[Paul G. <pmg...@gm...>]

>
> > Personally, I consider life too short to address the needs of those who
> "may
> > not even have a second/desktop system to use".
>
> That's a lot of people these days... More & more people every day are
> relying on a phone/phablet/tablet and some kind of media player be it
> roku, tiny mini-pc running kodi, one of those usb android devices,
> dedicated htpc, etc. If you're not interested none of that matters
> though.
>

This was the thinking that led me to work on a web UI to manage, control
and stream output of LIRC programs back in 2013/14 as part of a project for
a course I was studying at the time. Demo is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbUA6lHOAEw

Example of using irrecord starts around 1m 30s.

The code wasn't ever released, very rough in places and still needed some
work but the idea was to present the CLI functionality of LIRC (running on
a RPi for example) to a mobile device, or anything with a browser.
There is a project that provides irsend functionality in much the same way
which I gather is used quite a bit:

https://github.com/alexbain/lirc_web

Nowadays I tend to use the CEC functionality of my TV to control connected
devices (Kodi, BluRay etc) so I haven't given it much thought for a long
time.
It might be an idea to develop something on top of IrScrutinizer, allowing
access from a mobile/tablet/any browser if it's something that people could
make use of..