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LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control README.
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2010 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
General
This is the README file for LIRC, the Linux Infrared Remote Control package. The main documentation of this package is available in HTML format:
- For last released version at http://lirc.org.
- For current developent version (nightly builds) at http://lirc.sourceforge.net/lirc.org.
- After building the documentation is also available at doc/html/index.html.
Updated versions of lirc is available using the website http://lirc.org.
Last version: 0.9.4c
Build and install.
More complete build and install instructions are available in the manual, the Installation chapter. The fast track:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Building the Debian package.
As of 0.9.4 the distribution contains a Debian source package. At the time of writing it builds on debian-jessie, debian-stretch, ubuntu-trusty and ubuntu-xenial.
Detailed instructions how to build .deb packages from the source package are in README.debian.md which is shipped with the debian sources.
0.9.4 packages are also available in the Debian 'experimental' channel.
Upgrading
If you are upgrading from an older version of LIRC take a look at the NEWS file which contains all user visible changes between releases. From the top:
NEWS
0.9.4c 22/10/2016
Changes since 0.9.4b:
- New curl_poll files adds a new MIT license. Lirc now carries GPL, BSD and MIT licenses.
- Several patches to make lirc work again on macos (#226, #227).
- New tool irtext2udp generates udp plugin data (#197).
- Fix FTBS errors on linux kernel >= 4.8.0 (#232).
- plugins: girs: Add udp/receive support (#201).
- mode2: Fix broken --raw option (#223).
- lirc-make-devinput: Fix that two remotes has the same name (#222).
- lircd: Warn for duplicate remote definitions (#222).
- lircd: Retry temporary unavailable write sockets (#221).
- contrib: Fix usb devices' acl permissions (rhbz #1364744).
- lirc-setup: Fix crasher bugfix (Fedora abort trace).
- contrib: disable udev /dev/uinput rule requiring lirc user.
- plugins: audio_alsa: Fix byte truncating in 16-bit data (#218):
- plugins: irtoy: improve error handling (#220).
- Minor documentation fixes.
