[adrianwadey]

I have a Raspberry Pi that translates IR commands from one remote to control all my equipment (including controlling the TV over RS232). At the moment this is stand-alone and written in Ruby. I plan to rewrite it in Python and integrate it into XBMC.
I plan to make it configurable through the XBMC user interface.
Has anyone done any of this yet?
Would anyone else find it useful?

Features I am considering:

• Download LIRC remote config files from the web
  
• Support for capturing a remote using irrecord
  
• Manage lirc configuration files (combining them into one active file)
  
• Mode management (e.g. to watch STB turn the various equipment on and select the correct inputs on the TV, surround sound etc.)
  
• Add a page to XBMC with the various modes on it (Watch a blue Ray, watch the STB etc.)
  
• Intercept the remote messages so that XBMC doesn't respond when watching external sources.
  

Any thoughts or further suggestions gratefully received.