LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control.

[Sy Ali]

On 1/6/06, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am taking a close look at LIRC (Linux Infrared
> Remote Control) program, which allows you to use a TV
> remote control to control your Linux based machine,
> something great for MythTV and/or presentation
> software such as Kpresenter. My motive in all this is
> two-fold, it is interesting technology and yes I have
> an article in mind for what I am doing.

I have an X-10 mouse-remote which uses radio instead of infrared.  I
tested it and got it working some time ago.  I would recommend looking
at one of these instead of going homebrew where possible.

I haven't properly written up my notes, but if you get interested in
this as an alternative I'll go hunt down what I had done with it. 
It's fairly simple.. no real voodoo required.  Someone wrote some perl
scripting to use it under Linux.. and there's only a configuration
file to customize and a script to run.
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