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IR-CTL(1) User Commands IR-CTL(1) NAME ir-ctl - a swiss-knife tool to handle raw IR and to set lirc options SYNOPSIS ir-ctl [OPTION]... ir-ctl [OPTION]... --features ir-ctl [OPTION]... --send [file to send] ir-ctl [OPTION]... --scancode [protocol and scancode to send] ir-ctl [OPTION]... --keycode [keycode to send] ir-ctl [OPTION]... --receive [save to file] DESCRIPTION ir-ctl is a tool that allows one to list the features of a lirc device, set its options, receive raw IR, and send IR. IR can be sent as the keycode of a keymap, or using a scancode, or us- ing raw IR. Note: You need to have read or write permissions on the /dev/lirc de- vice for options to work. OPTIONS -d, --device=DEV lirc device to control, /dev/lirc0 by default -f, --features List the features of the lirc device. -r, --receive[=FILE] Receive IR and print to standard output if no file is specified, else save to the filename. -s, --send=FILE Send IR in text file. It must be in the format described below. If this option is specified multiple times, send all files in-order with a 125ms gap between them. The gap length can be modified with --gap. -S, --scancode=PROTOCOL:SCANCODE Send the IR scancode in the protocol specified. The protocol must one of the protocols listed below, followed by a colon and the scancode number. If this option is specified multiple times, send all scancodes in-order with a 125ms gap between them. The gap length can be modified with --gap. -K, --keycode=KEYCODE Send the KEYCODE from the keymap which must be specified with --keymap. If this option is specified multiple times, send all keycodes in-order with a 125ms gap between them. The gap length can be modified with --gap. -k, --keymap=KEYMAP The rc keymap file in toml format. The format is described in the rc_keymap(5) man page. This file is used to select the KEY- CODE from. -1, --oneshot When receiving, stop receiving after the first message, i.e. af- ter a space or timeout of more than 19ms is received. --mode2 When receiving, output IR in mode2 format. One line per space or pulse. -w, --wideband Use the wideband receiver if available on the hardware. This is also known as learning mode. The measurements should be more precise and any carrier frequency should be accepted. -n, --narrowband Switches back to the normal, narrowband receiver if the wideband receiver was enabled. -R, --carrier-range=RANGE Set the accepted carrier range for the narrowband receiver. It should be specified in the form 30000-50000. -m, --measure-carrier If the hardware supports it, report what the carrier frequency is on receiving. You will get the keyword carrier followed by the frequency. This might use the wideband receiver although this is hardware specific. -M, --no-measure-carrier Disable reporting of the carrier frequency. This should make it possible to use the narrowband receiver. This is the default. -t, --timeout=TIMEOUT Set the length of a space at which the receiver goes idle, spec- ified in microseconds. -c, --carrier=CARRIER Sets the send carrier frequency. -D, --duty-cycle=DUTY Set the duty cycle for sending in percent if the hardware sup- port it. -e, --emitters=EMITTERS Comma separated list of emitters to use for sending. The first emitter is number 1. Some devices only support enabling one emitter (the winbond-cir driver). -g, --gap=GAP Set the gap between scancodes or the gap between files when mul- tiple files are specified on the command line. The default is 125000 microseconds. -?, --help Prints the help message --usage Give a short usage message -v, --verbose Verbose output; this prints the IR before sending. -V, --version print the v4l2-utils version Format of file When sending or receiving raw IR, two formats can be used. The first is a list of integers representing pulse and space values. A pulse value can be prefixed with + and a space with -, but this is optional. The rc-5 scancode 0x1e01 is encoded so: +889 -889 +1778 -1778 +889 -889 +889 -889 +889 -889 +1778 -889 +889 -889 +889 -889 +889 -889 +889 -889 +889 -1778 +889 The other format mimics the mode2 tool. This produces one line per space or pulse. For receiving it can selected by specifying --mode2. Here is the same message as above, now encoded in mode2: carrier 36000 pulse 940 space 860 pulse 1790 space 1750 pulse 880 space 880 pulse 900 space 890 pulse 870 space 900 pulse 1750 space 900 pulse 890 space 910 pulse 840 space 920 pulse 870 space 920 pulse 840 space 920 pulse 870 space 1810 pulse 840 Note that in this format, the carrier can also be specified. This can only by done with a separate --carrier=38000 command line option with the first format. Rather than specifying just the raw IR, in this format you can also specify the scancode and protocol you want to send. This will also au- tomatically set the correct carrier. The above can be written as: scancode rc5:0x1e01 If multiple scancodes are specified in a file, a gap is inserted be- tween scancodes if there is no space between them (see --gap). One file can only have one carrier frequency, so this might cause problems if different protocols are specified in one file if they use different carrier frequencies. Note that there are device-specific limits of how much IR can be sent at a time. This can be both the length of the IR and the number of dif- ferent lengths of space and pulse. Supported Protocols A scancode with protocol can be specified on the command line or in the pulse and space file. The following protocols are supported: rc5, rc5x_20, rc5_sz, jvc, sony12, sony15, sony20, nec, necx, nec32, sanyo, rc6_0, rc6_6a_20, rc6_6a_24, rc6_6a_32, rc6_mce, sharp, imon, rc_mm_12, rc_mm_24, rc_mm_32. If the scancode starts with 0x it will be inter- preted as a hexadecimal number, and if it starts with 0 it will be in- terpreted as an octal number. Wideband and narrowband receiver Most IR receivers have a narrowband and wideband receiver. The narrow- band receiver can receive over longer distances (usually around 10 me- tres without interference) and is limited to certain carrier frequen- cies. The wideband receiver is for higher precision measurements and when the carrier frequency is unknown; however it only works over very short distances (about 5 centimetres). This is also known as learning mode. For most drivers, enabling carrier reports using -m also enables the wideband receiver. Global state All the options which can be set for lirc devices are maintained until the device is powered down or a new option is set. EXIT STATUS On success, it returns 0. Otherwise, it will return the error code. EXAMPLES To list all capabilities of /dev/lirc2: ir-ctl -f -d /dev/lirc2 To show the IR of the first button press on a remote in learning mode: ir-ctl -r -m -w Note that ir-ctl -rmw would receive to a file called mw. To restore the normal (longer distance) receiver: ir-ctl -n -M To send the pulse and space file play on emitter 3: ir-ctl -e 3 --send=play To send the rc-5 hauppauge '1' scancode: ir-ctl -S rc5:0x1e01 To send the rc-5 hauppauage '1' key from the hauppauge keymap: ir-ctl -k hauppauge.toml -K KEY_NUMERIC_1 BUGS Report bugs to Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org> COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2016 by Sean Young. License GPLv2: GNU GPL version 2 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO To display decoded IR, or set IR decoding options, see ir-keytable(1). The keymap format is described in rc_keymap(5). v4l-utils 1.23.0 Tue Jul 5 2016 IR-CTL(1)
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