Notices

You can check if irreco got the codes right by recording the output signals from the n900, then comparing them to those of the original remote.

I wish cursing would be allowed on this forum. I follow all the new threads via rss and let me tell you that since the n900 was released there are 20 posts of "connect my usb stick", "iphone this and that" for 1 good post or new software application.

Or at least a button for go @#$% yourself instead of thanks

just an idea...

i've searched a forum about programmable universal remote controller and found this

http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/

they have a lot of hex codes of infrared remotes...
not sure whether this codes are modifiable into the lirc database,

or maybe someone with enough knowledge about these things could help converting those hex codes into the lirc database format so we could use them with qtirreco

thank you...

oh a programable IR? would be a cool idea. the tools which are available at the moment doesn't support the devices here :-/

You can convert them with the help of pronto2lirc:

Take http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin.../philips/5141/ for example:

0. Close QtIrreco
1. Create a file named Philips5141.hex
2. For every IR command create a line like the following examples for "Up" and "Down" (i cut of the code with ... you have to copy the complete code to the file):
Up: 0000 006a 0022...015e 0058 0017 0e88
Down: 0000 006a 0022...015e 0058 0017 0e8b
3. Copy the file to the N900
4. Open the Terminal, change directory to the location where you copied the file to.
5. Execute "pronto2lirc Philips5141.hex". If nothing went wrong, you will get a lircd.conf in the same directory
6. Move the file to the qtirreco device directory:

mv lircd.conf /home/user/MyDocs/qtirreco/Devices/Philips5141

It's IMPORTANT that the name of the file (Philips5141 here) is the same as the file you used for the hex codes (without the .hex extension)! Actually the filename must match with the value of "name" in the generated lircd.conf file.

7. Edit /etc/lircd.conf (you have to be root) and import the file you created by adding the following line:
include "/home/user/MyDocs/qtirreco/Devices/Philips5141"

(Replace Philips5141 with your name)

Hopefully after you start qtirreco again, you can create a new remote and use newly added commands when creating new buttons.

You can use irsend to list and send remote commands from the command line (only while qtirreco is started, because it starts lircd):

irsend LIST "" "" - Lists all remotes
irsend LIST "REMOTE" "" - List all commands from remote named "REMOTE"
irsend SEND_ONCE "REMOTE" "COMMAND" - Send the infrared command "COMMAND" from remote "REMOTE"


I hope everybody understands my english :-)

@eisbaer82

Does it still work in PR 1.3?