Re: Synthetic LIRC events.

[Tsuki-yomi <tsu...@mo...>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 07:56, Christoph Bartelmus wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Tsuki-yomi "tsu...@mo..." wrote:
> > soon came to realize that I would need a way for the menu system itself
> > to trigger LIRC without me using a remote.
> [...]
> > All you need to do now is play the string back into /dev/lirc:
> >
> > cat lirc.PRG > /dev/lirc
> 
> This probably only works because "echo" is enabled for the according tty.  
> It won't work for most other lirc devices.

I thought there was something odd going on.  As far as I knew, it
shouldn't have worked - but it did.  That certainly explains it :)

> If you need a "lircd emulator" software have a look at this:
> 
> http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkutale1/en/lircemu/
> 
> Christoph

This looks as though it may have been close to what I was looking for.
I was looking for the similar idea, but being able to send commands from
the commandline rather than the console.

This is certainly a step in the right direction though.


-- 
James Budworth
tsu...@mo...