oli_yausbir

A LIRC-Plugin (i.e. driver) for "yaUsbIR V3 LIRC USB IR Empfänger/Sender/Einschalter"

Just google for "yaUsbIR V3" and you quickly find info about this little InfraRed-Receiver/Transmitter/PowerSwitch-device

Notes

• Work in progress
• At the moment this is just a quick'n'dirty "Eclipse CDT" project (i.e. no Makefile or so).
• For the impatient: a precompiled lib is avaible in bin/liboli_yausbir.so (provided 'as is')
• Logging not yet proper. It just prints to stdout.

Build and usage

Use Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers and invoke a build. Then use the well-known LIRC-Tools like this:

• mode2 -U bin/ -H oli_yausbir
• xmode2 -U bin/ -H oli_yausbir
• irrecord -U bin/ -H oli_yausbir
• etc...

To use your compiled version: replace -U bin/ by -U Debug/ or -U Release/

Finally copy the compile/link-result liboli_yausbir.so to directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lirc/plugins/ (Cross-check with property plugindir in your /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf). Then you don't need to specify -U ... any more.

To avoid setting the driver explicit with -H oli_yausbir you can also set it globally in /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf:

[lircd]
...
driver = oli_yausbir
...

Sending control-commands

The yaUsbIr-Board understands several control-commands. This PlugIn-driver here supports sending such control-commands (Note: Sending 'any' IR-Codes with a real IR-Trasmitter-LED - which must be attached to the yaUsbIr-Board - is not yet supported)

You need to copy yaUsbIR_V3_lircd.conf to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/ and (re)start lircd first before you can can anything with irsend.

Check if "sending control-commands" work by switching the red LED (on yaUsbIr-Board) on and off:

• irsend SEND_ONCE yaUsbIR_control C_IR 8 0 C_END turn off
• irsend SEND_ONCE yaUsbIR_control C_IR 8 1 C_END turn on

The most relevant command for you then probably is:

• irsend SEND_ONCE yaUsbIR_control C_IR 1 1 0 C_END to start learning the "Power-IR-Code"

See [Anleitung_yaUsbIR V3.4.pdf](./yaUsbir-Doc/Anleitung_yaUsbIR V3.4.pdf) for details and a list of all commands.

udev

Write this into /lib/udev/rules.d/99-yausbir.rules to give normal user access to the USB-Device. Other wise you have to start all tools (xmode2, irrecord, etc) as root.

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="10c4", ATTRS{idProduct}=="876c", MODE="0666"

Simply reboot to take effect