joeripronk / lircsocket

Want to use ir blasting with XBMC/Kodi on OpenELEC and found out eventlircd does not support it? XBMC/Kodi only supports 1 lirc socket, so you had two options:

• Write a (python) script to send commands to your seperate lircd on a raspberry pi this worked incredibly slow for me: python takes 1-2 seconds to start up which is ok for just powering on a device but for volume control it is completely useless. Running shell scripts was pretty slow too, XBMC/Kodi forks for every script
• Replace eventlircd with lircd This required more work and configuring than I would like but ir blasting works fast with just LIRC.Send().

So I opted for the third option:

• Write some code that listens on one socket and forwards messages from eventlircd and sends ir blaster commands to lircd.

./lircsocket.py -h usage: lircsocket.py [-h] [-e EVENTLIRCD] [-l LIRCD] [-s SOCKET] [-v] [-d]

interconnect eventlircd and lircd to get lircd (ir blasting) and eventlircd to work over a single socket.

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -e EVENTLIRCD, --eventlircd EVENTLIRCD socket for eventlircd -l LIRCD, --lircd LIRCD socket for lircd -s SOCKET, --socket SOCKET listening socket for me -v, --verbose be a bit verbose -d, --debug debug communication

Quick howto for OpenELEC: copy all files to /storage/.config/ chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh check in autostart.sh that your BLASTER_DEVICE is /dev/lirc1 (my MCEusb device is and it looks like the /dev/lirc0 is the rPI GPIO (optional) receiver)

modify lircd.conf to your liking, perhaps learn some new ir-codes other than my LG tv and Sony Amplifier. I had to use: irrecord --device=/dev/lirc1 configfile

I use irexec to convert my TV remote volume control buttons to my amplifier signals, which can now be nicely hidden as well.