man irsend (Commandes) - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands
NAME
irsend - basic LIRC program to send infra-red commands
SYNOPSIS
irsend [options] DIRECTIVE REMOTE CODE [CODE...]
DESCRIPTION
Asks the lircd daemon to send one or more CIR (Consumer Infra-Red) commands. This is intended for remote control of electronic devices such as TV boxes, HiFi sets, etc.
DIRECTIVE can be:
SEND_ONCE - send CODE [CODE ...] once SEND_START - start repeating CODE SEND_STOP - stop repeating CODE LIST - list configured remote items
- REMOTE is the name of a remote, as described in the lircd
- configuration file.
- CODE is the name of a remote control key of REMOTE, as it
- appears in the lircd configuration file.
For the LIST DIRECTIVE, REMOTE and/or CODE can be empty:
LIST "" "" - list all configured remote names LIST REMOTE "" - list all codes of REMOTE LIST REMOTE CODE - list only CODE of REMOTE
- -h --help
- display usage summary
- -v --version
- display version
- -d --device
- use given lircd socket [/dev/lircd]
EXAMPLES
irsend LIST DenonTuner "" irsend SEND_ONCE DenonTuner PROG-SCAN irsend SEND_ONCE OnkyoAmpli VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP VOL-UP irsend SEND_START OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN ; sleep 3 irsend SEND_STOP OnkyoAmpli VOL-DOWN
FILES
- /etc/lircd.conf
- Default lircd configuration file. It should contain all the remotes, their infra-red codes and the corresponding timing and waveform details.
DIAGNOSTICS
If lircd is not running (or /dev/lircd lacks write permissions) rc aborts with the following diagnostics:
"irsend: could not connect to socket" "irsend: Connection refused" (or "Permission denied").