Ah Ah, you belived it, didn't ya?
Just a quick recap for the people from the Linux-IrDA mailing list:
it's just that some LIRC users are dreaming to use LIRC with IrDA h/w.
Some do read FAQs, some do not and then complain :-) My humble
thoughts are ...
Wouldn't be enough to provide the feature of using a dongle with a
remote that can talk to it? I.e. being happy with a low-cost
HPSIR/ASKIR IrDA header (CIR seems to be live only in high-end m/b,
right?) that talks to a suitable remote (a non-consumer-tv one, that
is).
After all, the whole game is about being able to get an hex from a
char device, right? Isn't that all LIRC does? I didn't read the
sources, but to me it seems unlikely that Christoph went proggying i/o
around. I mean, all you need is an abstraction layer on those hex's,
so all you have to do after LIRC has learnt your remote buttons is
something like:
- read i/o
- decode
- write to IP socket
So, after all this waffling about things you all know more than
perfectly...
IrDA doesn't talk to tv-remotes, but it does have the IrCOMM layer to
emulate a serial i/f. My guess is that to get LIRC working with it,
you should just need to tell him/her (which sex Christoph? :-) to read
from the IrCOMM virtual serial device (as you would with a /dev/cua or
whatever) and use a remote that can be seen by your dongle+IrDAheader
pair.
If you check http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/status.html, you'll see
that the bright guys from Linux-IrDA already have some IrCOMM support,
so now all we should need is a remote that speaks IrDA HPSIR/ASKIR.
Open questions:
Does such an object exist?
Am I foolishly travelling abscure lands which I do not comprehend?
I.e. is there something I'm missing ... badly?
Cherio
Alessio
