On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 18:38:48 -0800, Jon Woffenden wrote:
> Hello everyone. I searched far and wide trying to find a way to use my
> Apple IR Remote under Linux to control my music. I found mention here
> and there about a kernel patch, but I couldn't find the patch and I
> didn't hear anything about versions of it for newer kernels.
>
> I finally just gave it a crack myself and wrote up a ruby script that
> controls Amarok with the remote, but I was wondering if there was a
> better way to do this - something more generic so it would work on
> things other than Amarok. Also, I have to start it up manually when I
> reboot with "sudo cat /dev/hiddev0 | ruby remote.rb" because it has to
> have root permissions to cat from /dev/hiddev0, but if I run it in a
> startup script it actually runs AS root - and I'd rather not run my
> music player as root.
>
> Other than that it works great on my machine (1.6 Ghz Intel Mini running
> Ubuntu 6.10). What do you think? Are there ways to improve this? Does
> it work on your distro/machine? I'd like to know how I can make it
> better and hopefully set up a package that's easy to distribute/configure.
Hi,
I simply use lirc. Sample lircd config is attached.
In your .lircrc, just use something like
"config = dcop amarok player play" to control amarok.
Your lircd command line should look like this:
lircd -n -H dev/input -d <path to the input device> /etc/lirc/lircd.conf-apple
Regards,
Tino
# Please make this file available to others
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#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.8.0(devinput) on Fri Aug 25 23:48:04 2006
#
# contributed by
#
# brand: lircd.conf
# model no. of remote control:
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#
begin remote
name apple-frontrow
bits 8
eps 30
aeps 100
one 0 0
zero 0 0
pre_data_bits 24
pre_data 0x800100
gap 135862
toggle_bit 0
begin codes
menu 0x8B
plus 0x73
minus 0x72
back 0xA5
forward 0xA3
play 0xA4
end codes
end remote
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