Generic IR receiver (ideally IR to MQTT)

[frenchzed]

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,

[Bluscream]

This would be the ideal outcome, if it was mqtt then it would be imediatly compatible with a whole host of devices.