On 16/03/12 14:59, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old > Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an > arbitrary remote. > > I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man > pages and other docs I've read don't discuss the difference/relationship > between IrDa and LIRC. > It's been a while since I looked into this, so someone might prove me wrong but as I understand it IrDA and general remote-control type IR are different and incompatible. IrDA on a laptop is (as far as a PC in concerned) a serial port, while an IR sender/receiver is a generic device.
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