Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Drat, looks like this is another subtlety that I've missed. When the user selects a favorite keyset, the current position in the favorite keysets list is marked. But the keyset that gets chosen when Pierogi starts up comes out of the user's QSettings, not out of the favorite keyset selector code. So, I've either forgotten to also check it against the favorites list, or I've made a mistake doing so... I'll try to get a fix for this into the next update. Thanks!

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Another small update on its way up to Extras-Devel right now. This one is just to fix the problem with Pierogi not recognizing when the startup keyset is a favorite keyset, and makes a first pass at some Manta DVB-T and DVD keysets.

I'm still plugging away at the more major updates to Pierogi; but, I don't yet have a good estimate as to when those will be done.

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Is it possible to get a remote for Philips SP-080FM Home theater system? I lost the remote and not able to find a replacement as this looks like a very rare model. I've tried with all the possible Philips remotes in Pierogi.
Thanks.

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Well, I can't find any config file specifically for that model, but there are a number of other Philips Home Theater config files available. With luck, maybe one of them will be compatible... Let me try and add them in. :)

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

@copernicus
Do you think you could add an autodetect wizard to try one function from all the keysets every 2/3 seconds until a keypress?

For example, i chose the "poweron" key and the wizard tries it from the all the keysets of all brands.
Then i could decide to try the "volume up", "program up"...and so on.

At the end, it should be possible to save the detected working codes to create a personal keyset. (that could also be exported to share it)

Concerning unsupported devices..
I suppose there could be a keyset that is already working with our unsupported device... but the hard part is to find which one could be... or accept that the working codes are mixed and shared between two different keysets.

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

This is probably not very easy to do. While I do like to find families of related keysets, the truth is that most devices have fairly unique (and incompatible) infrared control systems. And this is a good thing! :) When you've got a room filled with audio and video devices, you don't want the controller for one accidentally triggering another. So, there are dozens of different control protocols, and even in each protocol, there are unique "device ids" that are supposed to keep remote controls from triggering the wrong device. It's generally only when manufacturers get lazy that you can combine device keysets. (The exception here would be Sony -- they've done an amazing job of making sure that their IR remote controls are all backwards compatible, forwards compatible, and yet still avoid interference between one another. I've gotta take my hat off to them.)

However, there is another possibility; if you could determine both the IR protocol and the device id value used for a given device, you could then run through all the possible command values. Most protocols only have 128 or 256 possible commands. This still seems like a lot of work to me, but I think it might be doable...

My hope is that, for the majority of cases, if there's an unsupported device that has a compatible keyset in Pierogi, it is because both device manufacturers are simply using the same IR hardware (and repackaging/rebranding it). And so, they should have identical keysets. In this case, Pierogi's current "Automated Keyset Search" should be enough to find the compatible keyset...

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

That's exactly what i wanted to ask you once i get the response for my query :D

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Copernicus, is there a way, or would it be possible to add a way, to call certain remote control commands from the command line? I'm trying to set up an old N900 with my TV as a desktop type machine, and being able to send controls signals from on to t'other using a script would be jolly useful.

Re: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
 

Absolutely! :) I have yet to add such functionality to Pierogi, but the Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) software was ported to the N900 long ago. It comes as a server that you run in the background, and includes a collection of command-line utilities that communicate with that server. You just need to feed the server a config file corresponding to your TV, and then call "irsend" to send IR commands.

(It's been a while since I last used LIRC myself, but another user just recently reported using it for their own N900 project...)

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