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Install LIRC on HifiBerryOS

BT Togob

January 21, 2021 07:15

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First of all, HifiBerryOS is great, almost perfect, system for music listening. I like the clear and minimal design as well as the simplicity of the system. This is exactly what I have been looking for, it also has a high WAF factor. ;-)

Nevertheless as we all like to fiddle around with some technic stuff i would like to add some (already existing) IR Remote for simple actions like Pause, Vol+, Vol-, Skipping Songs and so on. As i play mostly songs from local storage on the Rpi4 should be no problem. Plan is to use a TSOP4838 as receiver. Im aware of which GPIOs i could use. But what i am struggling with, is the installation of LIRC on HifiBerryOS. Is it in general possible?

I knew i could use the official HB remote or maybe add an Arduino which acts as a keyboard.

System:
Rpi4 2GB
DAC+ DSP 
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  HiFiBerry team January 21, 2021 09:36

  Is it possible? Probably yes. Will it be easy? No. First you would have to install LIRC itself, after this you would have to create a modules for audiocontrol that can deal with it. 
  As HiFiBerryOS isn't designed to add software outside the build process (except docker containers), you would probably have to compile your own version:
  https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/doc/building.md

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  Philipp September 11, 2021 20:31

  Has anyone done this in the meantime and could post a small guideline?

  Im also very interested in using hifiberros and infrared ir receiver to control volume.