From: VDR U. <use...@gm...> - 2017-10-22 16:09:26
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>> > 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. I watched the video and will say that looks like a very useful tool, especially for the group of users I described. Any specific reason you never tidy'ed it up and offered it to the world? You might want to give it a thought! > 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 I gave that a look as well - it's a different tool from yours however. Unless I missed something it seems all it does is provide irsend and nothing else. That's useful as well but I suspect for narrower audience. > 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.. CEC is interesting but I've found surprisingly a lot of devices don't actually support it or don't have it implemented correctly. You'd think it would be standard but I guess it's still new enough that that's not the case. I've been thinking about buying the Pulse Eight usb CEC device but haven't found it at a decent price. It's simply not something I'm willing to pay $40-50 for when I can accomplish the same thing with an extra keypress or two on my <$10 remote. And in their price range I can just pay less for an Raspberry Pi, Pine64, or something like those with CEC built-in. That's a discussion for a different thread however. |