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>The lircin Driver</H1
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>The lircin driver enables you to use any IR remote control
that works with LIRC to control the LCDproc server
(<TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>LCDd</TT
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and/or clients that can handle input.</P
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>Of course you need a working LIRC setup. Refer to
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information on LIRC itself.</P
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>Checking Your LIRC Setup</H2
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>Basically all you need is a running <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>lircd</TT
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And of course you have to start <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>lircd</TT
>
as root.</P
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>Also, make sure that the permission of <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/dev/lircd</TT
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are correct.</P
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>Build LCDd with the lircin Driver</H2
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>You need to add lircin to the --enable-drivers=... list.</P
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>Then simply run make.</P
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>Configure LCDd to Use the lircin Driver</H2
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>First of all you need to activate the driver by adding a Driver=lircin line
to your <TT
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>LCDd.conf</TT
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>Example 1. <TT
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>LCDd.conf</TT
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> Driver=mtxorb
Driver=lircin </PRE
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>This activates the mtxorb driver as the output driver and the lirc driver
as the input driver.</P
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>Then you have to modify the [lircin] section of your
<TT
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>LCDd.conf</TT
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><TT
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>LCDd.conf</TT
>: The [lircin] Section</H3
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>The [lircin] section of the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>LCDd.conf</TT
> contains the
settings for the lircin LCDproc driver.</P
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><DT
>lircrc=</DT
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><A
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>Normally all LIRC clients scan the file <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
>.
However, you might want to have a separate file to configure the
LCDproc lircin driver only.</P
><P
>This option enables you to specify the file you want the lircin
driver to scan.</P
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>prog=</DT
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>All LIRC keys are assigned to a program using the prog=... option
in the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
> (or the file you have specified
with lircrc=...).</P
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>The prog=... line must be the same as in your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
>
(or the file you have specified with lircrc=...).</P
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>Modify Your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
></H2
><P
>As mentioned above you can either modify the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
>
or use a separate file for the lircin LCDproc driver (See
<A
HREF="x899.html#WHICH-LIRCRC"
>above</A
> for details).</P
><P
>No matter which file you use, you have to add at least the following
lines to the file:</P
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>Example 2. <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>~/.lircrc</TT
>: Specify the keys for the lircin driver</B
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CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
> begin
prog = lcdd
button = 2
config = A
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 4
config = B
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 6
config = C
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 8
config = D
end
</PRE
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><P
>Which buttons you specify here depends on your RC and your LIRC configuration.
Anyways, config=A/B/C/D is neccessary to control the server menu of LCDd.
Of course you can define other keys. Those keys will not be handled by the
server but sent to a client. Refer to the documentation of the client you want
to use, to find out which keys are neccessary for that client.</P
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