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Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
copernicus....did u ever use or heard picloc total ir remote on 6600 symbians . can their ir codes be merged . they have insane varitey of devices incuding ac and it works
Ah, do you mean the Psiloc irRemote applicaton? Yes, I took a look at it; unfortunately, it's a commercial product, and the licensing terms don't look compatible for using it with an open-source project. (Which is annoying, because if you look at their configuration files, they are quite obviously just LIRC config files with a few extra fields. Given that the LIRC is a GPL'd program, I suspect the irRemote is a legally dubious product...)

In any case, even though I started out using bits and pieces of the LIRC server myself, over time I gave up on it and completely redesigned the method I'm using to manage and store ir pulse data. I've gone so far away from their design now that it takes quite a bit of effort to convert the data from an LIRC config file into the form I'm using internally. On the other hand, Pierogi can now store thousands of IR configurations internally, something that LIRC can't do. (Which is probably why irRemote can't do that either.)

But I should mention, you can get the LIRC server itself on the N900; in fact, the irreco app is based on it. So, you can probably take any of the Psiloc config files and just dump them into irreco without too much editing, if you wanted to...

EDIT: And I'll bet that the Psiloc app only supports "stateless" air conditioner remotes. There's just no way to construct an LIRC configuration that would be of any use in a system that dumps state info into each command...

Last edited by Copernicus; 2013-04-20 at 10:44. Reason: added LIRC and A/C
 

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