"PATCH" to enable lirc over network

[Pieter De Wit]

Binary package hint: lirc

Hi Guys,

I have made the following changes to /etc/init.d/lirc to allow my "client" machine to receive lirc commands from my "server" machine, over the network. This came from having a mythbuntu frontend machine with no remote control support. Not sure if the feature request should go to them, but both installs was "Ubunu 10.10 ALT install" first :)

Here goes:

Line 59 in /etc/init.d/lirc now looks like:

if [ ! -z "$TRANSMITTER_DEVICE" ] || [ ! -z "$TRANSMITTER_DRIVER" ] || [ ! -z "$ENABLE_NETWORK" ]; then

After line 63 I added:

        if [ ! -z "$NETWORK_HOST" ]; then
                #REMOTE_ARGS="$REMOTE_ARGS --connect $NETWORK_HOST:$NETWORK_PORT"
                REMOTE_ARGS="$REMOTE_ARGS --connect $NETWORK_HOST"
        fi

Then, in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf, I set the above variables.

A few issues "off the bat":

*) I am not sure if lirc can support a network proxy type setup, imaging a bunch of remote control server out there, with one client, but the client is a server too... If not, we should guard against this, perhaps with a NETWORK_MODE="client|server"
*) My variable names need to comply to a standard ?
*) Not sure if my "PATCH" is a patch, rather a hack perhaps ? :)

lsb_release -rd - for both machines
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10

apt-cache policy lirc
lirc:
  Installed: 0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.7~pre3-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Thanks !

[Pieter De Wit (pieter-insync)]

Hello......echo echo echo.....

[Pieter De Wit (pieter-insync)]

No takers ?

[Alec Leamas (leamas-alec)]

This is obsoleted by last update 0.9.4c, which has a completely different configuration system. Could check this version and come back if you think this bug still is valid?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lirc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]