Mail address dead for adding configs, Mailing Lists not active anymore.
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#29 Mail address dead for adding configs, Mailing Lists not active anymore.
So, I made a nice config according to the new style, I spent too much time making my scan of the remote look good and adjust the size to the requested circa 100kB size.
Sent it in, got a reply back that one of the e-mails in the chain didn't have an active domain.
I sent to lirc@bartelmus.de as indicated in IRRecord.exe as well as the wiki, got a reply from mailer-demon@kundenserver.de that the address lirc A_T kolmodin.net has a permanent error - non-existant domain.
Mailing List - was my thought, it's linked to here in the Wiki, set it up, replied to the e-mail... then I got an e-mail that it's no active anymore, and when looking at posts it seems to have not been active since 10 years or so... So why provide a subscription link?
If you want the project to be alive there should be somehwere to add new data, IMHO.
I'll just include my files here, maybe they'll be used.
If there's nowhere to send files I guess I won't bother with my other remotes.
/ Fredric
Committed as https://sourceforge.net/p/lirc-remotes/code/ci/d2c997ce7b2f16616b238ce, assuming this is OK for you.
There is a remote database at http://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/. This is primarely used by the linux project, but I think the remotes there should be usable also for winLIRC. Also the irdb-get pythoin script to search and download configurations should be possible to use on windows, it's a a self-contained python script.
The problem here is rhat we need more hands on this. I'm not able to keep up with all input from time to time, that's probabkly what happened to you here.
--alec
There are probably 500 emails in the winlirc one. I wish I had time to process them all but I simply don't. Many were missing buttons, spelling errors, etc ..
What Win/LIRC needs or what I wanted was some sort of online database where people could upload and vote on configs. The bad ones would get downvoted, the good ones upvoted. Then maybe the system would run itself.
Hm, yes.... but there are limitations. One is that there is a large number of lirc with just an email address out there, another that not all users providing configs are used to typical software workflows.
That said, I still think there should be a menual review before making a config marked as usable. functionality for voting and patching would of course making things better. For now, I'm using the mail archives for the lirc-remotes mailing list for this, just to let google index it. It's less than satisfactory...
But even the basic task to rip out the config file and the corresponding photo from a message is non-trivial.