chill wrote: > I'm hoping someone can summarise how to make an infrared remote control > perform a specified function on a Squeezebox player. > > My scenario: > I've just bought a 'oneforall' 4-in-1 remote control. The TV and > satellite receiver setup were easy, using the standard codes for the > brands. My amplifier (a home-build using a Hypex DLCP) was easily set > up on the 'AMP' button using the remote's learning function, as was my > RPi (running pCP and LIRC) on the 'DVD' button. But there are some > functions that I'd like to programme that are not present on either of > my Squeezebox remotes, so my oneforall can't 'learn' them. > > As an example, I'd like to programme the mute key to set the playback > volume to zero. I've done this previously using a button press on one > of the RPi's GPIO pins, so I know that the ["mixer","volume","0"] > command does what I need. > > So I think there are two steps: > 1) Find out what code is transmitted by the mute key when my remote is > set to 'DVD'. I can vary this somewhat by selecting different DVD > brands, but I can't assign a specific code to the mute key, so I believe > the correct approach is to first detect the code that's transmitted, > then > 2) tell LMS to set ["mixer","volume","0"] in response to that code. > > I'm pretty sure there's info on step 2 available in this forum, so I'll > dig that out, but is there an easy way to get LMS to tell me what code > it detected when I pressed the mute key?
Simply program lirc to send KEY_U while mute is pressed Jeff *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezeLite-X,PiCorePlayer x3 *Server:* LMS Version: Latest Nightly on Centos 7.5 VM on ESXi 6.5.0U2 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud/Spotty/Player Groups *Remotes:* iPeng9/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite/SqueezeLite-X *Music:* 522GB,1660 albums with 23087 songs by 5204 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110318 _______________________________________________ diy mailing list diy@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/diy