But like all good things, its still not totally done…
…and it never will be. You’ll soon start itching for more and more…!
…and it never will be. You’ll soon start itching for more and more…!
@Old_Duffer …… it has already begun……
Now that I understand things a bit more I have a couple things I want to confirm and some questions.
Statements
Here is my main question
The reason I am asking is I realized that the Apple remote I got, while nice looking, does not have enough individual buttons for what I need lol….
I want to be able to navigate the menu options, select them with enter, and then still have forward and backward.
So up/down move within the nav menu (instead of volume up and volume down)
Single left/right move within the nav menu (new functionality assigned to the single IR press)
Double Left goes to the previous track/reverses the song to beginning (what it does currently)
Double right moves to the next track (what it does currently)
Enter/Ok selects a thing
Menu enters the user interface
Play/Pause remains the same
See…. I’m down the rabbit hole
After all your efforts, you must be good at it now. I’d ditch the Apple remote, go in for one of your multi button ones and have a good google re. lirc, it does a lot…
Lol yeah that was another thought too. I’d prefer something nice looking (IE my other two junky plastic ones are not up to snuff lol) and I was going to start by looking at the ones already populate as references.
I’ve often thought that it would be good to have a thread where people can share the ‘not so obvious’ things that you can do with lircrc.
Looking at some of the Xbox One remotes like the below.
The Pi is hooked to a preamp with its own remote and while I could go all in with a Harmony, that’s MUCH more work than I want (right now).
Also I am going to put one of these in my 1950 Motorola tube stereo console downstairs.
The tube preamp can accept line level, but will be stealth hiding a Volumio pi in it.
Remote for simple play/pause/next track would be nice, and I can hide the IR inside a hole in the grill material.
So the GPIO ribbon cable came in to hook up my HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro and for some reason the “magic smoke” got let out and I’m 99% positive the DAC is toast.
Before I order and then screw up another DAC (this time the Dac 2 Pro, or Digi 2 Pro), can someone look at this for me and let me know if I did something wrong.
I had everything connected like the below, just add in a 40 pin GPIO ribbon cable on the middle slot, which was connected to the HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro.
I previously had connected the screen to the 5v output from the HiFiBerry DAC+ Pro , but figured I didn’t need to do that anymore and could use the GPIO extension header. The wiring was setup as follows:
linkI’ve included a picture of the damaged area below, with the screwdriver pointing to it, and the documentation from HiFiBerry
Here is where the screen previously was connected
-------------------------HiFiBerrySupportDocumentation------------------
The HiFiBerry support page also lists this information:
We know that many people like to add additional hardware components (LCDs, buttons, etc.) to their Raspberry Pi. We provide this documentation to help you with this. However:
GPIO2-3 (pins 3 and 5) are used by our products for configuration. If you are experienced with I2C, you might add other slave devices. If you a a novice, we don’t recommend this at all.
GPIOs 18-21 (pins 12, 35, 38 and 40) are used for the sound interface. You can’t use them for any other purpose.
Just to drop in yet another lirc.conf file, I created one today for the PDP Gaming Remote Control: Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox. The existing Xbox One Remote did not work. And this file looked more like the others I’ve seen, unlike the A2194 one I created.
# Please make this file available to others
# by sending it to <lirc@bartelmus.de>
#
# this config file was automatically generated
# using lirc-0.9.0-pre1(default) on Fri Oct 15 16:09:39 2021
#
# contributed by
#
# brand: PDP Gaming Media Remote Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One
# home/volumio/XboxOne_lircd.conf
# model no. of remote control: B08FCVG5DX
# devices being controlled by this remote:
#
begin remote
name /home/volumio/XboxOne_lircd.conf
bits 16
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100
header 8977 4567
one 596 1687
zero 596 531
ptrail 596
repeat 8978 2273
pre_data_bits 16
pre_data 0x11B
gap 108399
min_repeat 1
# suppress_repeat 1
# uncomment to suppress unwanted repeats
toggle_bit_mask 0x0
begin codes
KEY_POWER 0x26D9
KEY_ZOOM 0x7689
KEY_TITLE 0xF609
KEY_UP 0x7887
KEY_DOWN 0xF807
KEY_LEFT 0x04FB
KEY_RIGHT 0x847B
KEY_OK 0x44BB
KEY_X 0x16E9
KEY_Y 0xE619
KEY_A 0x6699
KEY_B 0xA659
KEY_REWIND 0xA857
KEY_FASTFORWARD 0x28D7
KEY_PLAY 0x0EF1
KEY_BACK 0xC43B
KEY_MUTE 0x708F
KEY_VOLUMEUP 0x08F7
KEY_VOLUMEDOWN 0x8877
KEY_CHANNELUP 0x48B7
KEY_CHANNELDOWN 0xC837
end codes
end remote
Ok, so I’m back. I spent a few sleepless nights figuring out what went wrong with the prior setup as I let out the magic smoke…
After lots of looking and a couple comments on the hifiberry forum they seemed to indicate it might be due to using a GPIO ribbon cable. I also wondered if pulling off the 3.3v was also a mistake, (see note below from hifiberry site)
So I bit the bullet and:
Now after all that, I dug in deeper to the LIRC for the PDP remote and have it somewhat configured the way I want. But I have quite a few un-used buttons, which leads to the next question:
I’m hoping to be able to call spotify, and under my account, call a specific playlist…
Is the IR remote controller plugin ready for volumio 3? I would like to know before I hit the v2 to v3 upgrade button since this plugin is key to volumio integrating with my hometheater setup.
No yet, it’s pending for approval.
Cool! then we are waiting impatiently for me, this plugin also plays a key role in controlling the equipment
same for me.
hopefully it will be ready soon, waiting to upgrade 3 RPI’s
+1
I just upgraded to Volumio 3 and to my surprise I can’t use my remote anymore
Hi @gvolt , I’m wondering what is missing for the approval, and if there is any relevant issue still pending.
I tried to manually download and install your last commit, rel. 3.4.6 , and it seems to work flawlessly.
Thank you so much for your job, which I appreciated a lot.
Btw , for sake of completeness and for benefit of all : I use a common USB Microsoft IR Receiver; no need to act on any GPIO pin, and not any additional configuration either. Just plugged the USB IR Receiver and it worked instantly with a Samsung TV remote.
After struggling a bit, I’ve also successfully configured the lircd.conf and lircrc files for my Copland RC-102A remote.
Thx
@Fabian_Barile Thank you for your positive report. I don’t have any feedback on the PR yet and don’t know if there is a problem with the plugin.
Would you mind sharing these files so I could integrate them into a future version of the plugin?
Sure. See in attachment the Copland config files.
Copland RC 102A.zip (76.0 KB)
Notes :
I also tried the latest infrared version and it just works.
thanks again for the tip
Hi! Can someone tell me where are you downloading the beta 3.4.6 version from?
I am happy to play the test - but somehow I can’t find anywhere …
you can download it here.
they are under accessories/ir_controller