[Generic IR receiver (ideally IR to MQTT)]

Hey,

A little project of mine is to use Flirc USB as generic IR receiver instead of a keyboard emulator. The ideal situation would be something that grabs received codes and fire them onto a MQTT topic that would later be handled by Node RED.

Until recently, I though I would have to record a bunch of keys to essentially map well known IR codes to corresponding keyboard keys such that I could just get the event. However, recently I noticed that irtools decode -l was doing almost exactly what I wanted already !

I could build a wrapper that launches irtools decode -l and try to parse its output but I'd much rather have that functionality built in a library.

Do you plan to have that happen eventually ?

Thanks,

[flirc_util delete_index 0]

Hi,

I started to record keys and when I made a mistake and wanted to clean an erroneous key, i noticed that delete_index seems to be broken.

$ flirc_util settings
flirc_util version 26e271e49325ec7e449a705e4d438c7d0426fd0d [26e271e+]
 Firmware Detected
 FW Version: v4.9.7
    SKU:     Flirc 2.0 [dori]
    Branch:  release
    Config:  release
    Hash:    0x1DE23EB8

Settings:
  sleep detection:  always enabled
  noise canceler:   always enabled
  inter-key delay:  N/A for current firmware
  variant:          Flirc
  builtin profiles: NA
  Memory Info:      NA
  product sku:      Flirc 2.0 [dori]

Recorded Keys:
Index  hash       IK   ID  key
-----  --------   ---  --  ------------
    0  5EDD5604   108  01  a

 

$ flirc_util delete_index 0

$ flirc_util settings
flirc_util version 26e271e49325ec7e449a705e4d438c7d0426fd0d [26e271e+]
 Firmware Detected
 FW Version: v4.9.7
    SKU:     Flirc 2.0 [dori]
    Branch:  release
    Config:  release
    Hash:    0x1DE23EB8

Settings:
  sleep detection:  always enabled
  noise canceler:   always enabled
  inter-key delay:  N/A for current firmware
  variant:          Flirc
  builtin profiles: NA
  Memory Info:      NA
  product sku:      Flirc 2.0 [dori]

Recorded Keys:
Index  hash       IK   ID  key
-----  --------   ---  --  ------------
    0  5EDD5604   108  01  a

I believe 4.9.7 is the very latest version of the firmware. I'm using flirc_util from the latest version of the https://github.com/flirc/sdk

Thanks,