README
Welcome to IRMCTL (InfraRed Multi ConTroLler).
irmctl is a controller daemon for your non irda infrared receiver Copyright (C) 1999 Rui M. Silva <rms@greymalkin.yi.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Everything started in Set. 1999, when I bought Evation's IRMAN, and found that support on linux was based either on direct support (xmms) or through lircd (xawtv) wich locked out xmms. Maybe there was a way to go around this using lircd, but I thought .oO( Hey, am I not a programmer? ) so I decided to do one which would suit me as needed.
Here it is... at the touch of a switch and a button, your remote will handle xmms. Or xawtv, or whatever you specify in a configuration file (I recommend that /etc/irmctl.conf be created by someone who knows what root compromise means, but copying the default should be fine for most users).
You can find more info at irmctl.netpedia.net, as well as on-line documentation.
I don't expect it to be portable, but since this is released under GPL 2.0, feel free to give me a help, but I note that it *is not* a priority. Maybe for version 2.0.0.
Read INSTALL to see how to build and install irmctl.
Read NEWS for new stuff since last version, or check CHANGES to view the change log.