HOW-TO:Set up LIRC This page or section may require cleanup, updating, spellchecking, reformatting and/or updated images. Please improve this page if you can. The discussion page may contain suggestions. This guide explains how to set up Kodi to understand a universal remote's commands (so not the standard MCE remotes that work out of the box). You obviously need some hardware device for this that reads infrared commands. I'm using a cheap (+- 10 euro) device called the IRMan. You can find a list of supported devices.

Contents • • • • • • • • 1 Download and install Lirc First you have to download and install Lirc. If you're using Ubuntu or Debian you can just type apt-get install lirc. If you don't have a lirc package in you distribution or (in my case) a buggy version, it's pretty easy to compile lirc from source::~$ wget:~$ tar -jxf lirc-0.9.4b.tar.bz2:~$ cd lirc-0.9.4b:~/lirc-0.9.4b$ aclocal && autoheader && autoconf:~/lirc-0.9.4b$./configure --with-x --with-driver=irman (or whatever remote you are using, check./configure --help for supported ones - for homebrew serial IR use --driver=serial):~/lirc-0.9.4b$ make && sudo make install Next comes the interesting part. 2 Configure Lirc to understand your remote's commands You have downloaded and installed Lirc and are now ready to set it up. First, check if your IR receiver is already preconfigured. Ubuntu stores the configuration files in ' /usr/share/lirc/remotes but you can also find them in the source tree in the remotes directory.

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If you can find you remote, copy the config file to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf and open the file with a text editor. Delete the lines between begin codes and end codes.

2.1 Learning Commands Now we're going to learn commands. Fire up irrecord with the following command::~$ sudo -s ## you have to be root for this part [sudo] password for user::~# cd /etc/lirc:/etc/lirc# irrecord --driver=irman --device=/dev/ttyS0 MyRemote ## use the driver that you chose in the previous part. /dev/ttyS0 = first com port You'll get a wall of text and are asked to press enter.

Next you'll see a prompt. Hold down an arbitrary button. Just hold down any button on your remote until the next prompt. Found gap length: 215947 Now enter the names for the buttons. Now you have to learn all buttons. Enter a name, press enter, hold down the button you are learning and repeat.

When you're done, press enter. Press one button on your remote as fast as possible but DO NOT hold it down. 2.2 Testing the new lirc configuration Next we're going to test the config file we just created. Start lirc with the following command::/etc/lirc# lircd --driver=irman --device=/dev/ttyS0 /etc/lirc/MyRemote You can test your config by starting irw::/etc/lirc# irw Press the buttons on your remote you just learned and see if they match. Press ctrl+c to quit irw. If there's a problem, stop lirc with:/etc/lirc# killall lircd delete the file we just created:/etc/lirc# rm -f MyRemote and repeat the whole learning process back from the top.

If it still doesn't work, have a look at or ask on the forums. 2. Tusau keser zhiri pesnya pro. 3 Make the changes to lirc If irw gave the right output, stop lirc with:/etc/lirc# killall lircd and move the file we created to lircd.conf:/etc/lirc# mv MyRemote lircd.conf Finally start up lirc with:/etc/lirc# /etc/init.d/lircd start You can now leave your root shell. 3 Configure Kodi to understand Lirc's commands So now that you configured lirc and irw gives the expected output, it's time to let lirc talk to Kodi. Start your text editor and open the file named Lircmap.xml, which is usually located in $home$/.kodi/userdata/ and the generic is on /usr/share/Kodi/system/.