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IF Signal Processor (Windows)

Part II: Home Entertainment

mode. For example, to assign the command PLAY to a play button, place the

following code inside the

xmms mode block (but outside of any nested but-

ton blocks):

begin

prog = xmms

button = play

config = PLAY

end

By now the format should be getting familiar; you just need to keep a few

simple details in mind.

prog specifies the name of the application that

should receive the messages;

button is the name of the button specified in

lircd.conf; and config is the actual message to be delivered. For a complete

list of the possible commands you can send to XMMS using LIRC, see the

xmms-lirc documentation in /usr/share/doc/xmms-lirc/README.

Infrared Signal Processor (Windows)

You’ve got your LIRC IR receiver ready to go and you want to use it to control

your software—but you don’t run Linux. You might reasonably assume that

the Linux Infrared Remote Control package runs only on Linux; however,

you’d be wrong. There’s a port of LIRC for Windows named

WinLIRC.

A completely unrelated IR receiver project already scooped the name WIRC; that

program runs only on Windows 9x and Me and was specifically designed for the

Packard Bell FastMedia receiver. It’s not compatible with the receiver we’ve built

in this project.

1. Install and configure the WinLIRC driver

Download WinLIRC from http://winlirc.sourceforge.net and extract it

someplace ...