livetools - Creative Live!Drive IR Daemon, interface library and XMMS plugin
http://cosiforge.cosi.clarkson.edu/projects/livetools
- Introduction
The Live!Drive IR that ships with SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum has a small infrared port on it that allows the user to use his/her computer like a home entertainment system. The IR port is actually a MIDI device that sends MIDI System Exclusive commands whenever a key is pressed.
- Plugins
XMMS
This is a simple plugin that interfaces with liveird. You need both the liveird and liveir_sdk packages installed. You should have received them with the livetools distribution. This is a General plugin; look in that tab in XMMS' preferences and enable it. You should also configure the device that liveird reads from.
- Remotes Supported:
Creative RM-900
- Bundled with the Live!Drive IR and SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 kit.
- The Audigy uses this remote too, so when Linux has support for the IR port on
that I imagine it will work without any changes.
Creative iR2000
- Bundled with the 52x iNFRA CD-Drive
- Installation
See INSTALL for general configure help. In order to use this daemon you need to have libliveir installed. You should have received a copy of it if you downloaded the livetools distribution. To install:
./configure
make
make install (generally as root)
The distribution is installed in /usr/local by default. The XMMS plugin can be found in the General Plugins section.
- Configuration
Changes must be made to /etc/modules.conf .
In order for the daemon to recieve the key codes from the remote you must enable the IR port:
# ALSA Specific Example
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_enable_ir=1
ALSA Drivers
If you use ALSA, use the /dev/midi device. I think this device is acutally part of the OSS emulation layer, the native ALSA device will also work I think.
OSS Drivers
The devices /dev/midi0? must be used where ? is a valid device number. Usually it's MIDI device 0.
- Credits
Chris Carter - for letting me steal his iR2000 remote Arnaud de Bossoreille de Ribou <bozo@via.ecp.fr> - for figuring out how to initialize the IR port among other things