[Alsaplayer-devel] lirc module that works with text interface?

[Hubert Chan]

On 2005-04-17 13:37:18 -0400 Darrell Berry <darrell at ku24.com> wrote:

> i'm looking for lirc support that doesn't require X -- i'm sure its 
> out 
> there, but i can't find anything current...?

Once upon a time, I wrote an LIRC plugin that used XOSD, but I was
planning on adding support for other display types.  Unfortunately,
development has stalled because I couldn't get LIRC running under
Linux 2.6 at the time, and I haven't tried it recently.

http://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/ap-lirc.text

But it should be pretty easy to add other display types, depending on
the display.  If you don't want any sort of display, it's easy to just
rip out all the display code.  (But, of course, some things may be
really hard, like navigating playlists blind.)  I was planning on an
ncurses display, and it shouldn't be hard to add, but I need to learn
how to use ncurses first.  I was also adding an LCDproc display, but
that seems a bit harder because IIRC LCDproc has its own event loop or
something -- I just remember there was some sort of mismatch somewhere.

If you want to write your own support for other displays, I can tell
you exactly what you'll need to change.  It should be easy (assuming
you know C++) because I had designed it specifically to be able to
support different display types as much as possible.

Otherwise, I was planning on trying to get LIRC running again during
my next kernel compile, and I may resume development on the plugin
this summer.  But you may have to prod me, because I have a few other
programming projects waiting.

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