Re: CLI tool for IR blasting using multiple Arduino Nanos running GIRS?

Hi Jan,

sorry it took me so long to answer.

On 12/3/22 16:13, Jan Ceuleers wrote:

> Still: I would like to avoid using LIRC for what I consider to be a very
> simple task: I have several Arduino Nanos running GIRS firmware, and I
> need a CLI tool for sending IR sequences to set-top boxes. I have used
> IrScrutiniser to learn the IR remote signals that need to be sent.

If I understand you correcty, the Harchardware project 
https://github.com/bengtmartensson/HarcHardware is what you are looking 
for. It is really included, and used by, IrScrutinizer, so you have it 
already. (The standard install on Linux installs a symbolic link 
harchardware (typically in /usr/local/bin) that can be used as command. 
With that, you can issue commands like (assuming that /dev/ttyUSB0 is an 
Arduino with Girs)

$ harchardware --arduino --device /dev/ttyUSB0 transmit --protocol RC5 
--names D=0,F=12

which will turn on or off a Philips TV. There are tons of other options, 
use the help function to list them. There is also a 
discussions/questions area 
https://github.com/bengtmartensson/HarcHardware/discussions for 
Harchardware.

Please use the current IrScrutinizer snapshot on Github; nearly 
identical to the upcoming release 2.4.0.

> In my view LIRC is rather a convoluted piece of software that is hard to
> configure and that has proved to be fragile over the many years that I
> have used it (both for receiving and for blasting), ...

Lirc was conceived and implemented (for the main parts) in the previous 
century. IMHO, it was badly designed from the start, build very heavily 
into Linux, and this surely has not improved with the years.

Greetz,

Bengt