The lircin driver enables you to use any IR remote control that works with LIRC to control the LCDproc server (LCDd) and/or clients that can handle input.
Of course you need a working LIRC setup. Refer to http://www.lirc.org for more information on LIRC itself.
Basically all you need is a running lircd. And of course you have to start lircd as root.
Also, make sure that the permission of /dev/lircd are correct.
You need to add lircin to the --enable-drivers=... list.
Then simply run make.
First of all you need to activate the driver by adding a Driver=lircin line to your LCDd.conf
This activates the mtxorb driver as the output driver and the lirc driver as the input driver.
Then you have to modify the [lircin] section of your LCDd.conf.
The [lircin] section of the LCDd.conf contains the settings for the lircin LCDproc driver.
Normally all LIRC clients scan the file ~/.lircrc. However, you might want to have a separate file to configure the LCDproc lircin driver only.
This option enables you to specify the file you want the lircin driver to scan.
All LIRC keys are assigned to a program using the prog=... option in the ~/.lircrc (or the file you have specified with lircrc=...).
The prog=... line must be the same as in your ~/.lircrc (or the file you have specified with lircrc=...).
As mentioned above you can either modify the ~/.lircrc or use a separate file for the lircin LCDproc driver (See above for details).
No matter which file you use, you have to add at least the following lines to the file:
Example 5-2. ~/.lircrc: Specify the keys for the lircin driver
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 2
config = A
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 4
config = B
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 6
config = C
end
begin
prog = lcdd
button = 8
config = D
end
Which buttons you specify here depends on your RC and your LIRC configuration. Anyways, config=A/B/C/D is neccessary to control the server menu of LCDd. Of course you can define other keys. Those keys will not be handled by the server but sent to a client. Refer to the documentation of the client you want to use, to find out which keys are neccessary for that client.