2021-06-01, 17:14
Hi all,
I recently had the need to support IR blasting to allow my Kodi system to control my Denon AVR for things like volume control and switching inputs. While it was fairly easy to adjust Kodi's keymap to map certain remote buttons to execute scripts via RunScript(), the latency was simply too high, and got even worse when the Kodi system was doing anything CPU intensive. So I wrote a service addon which can support raw IR blasting (via the emitters provided by my MCEUSB receiver). This is a proof-of-concept code drop mostly, as there are bits that are hard-coded to my particular setup, but I wanted to make it available for anyone else that was wanting to have low-latency IR blasting support too. If anyone wants to help make this project a more generic solution, please hit me up!
Code: https://github.com/jpsutton/service.irblaster
Cheers!
I recently had the need to support IR blasting to allow my Kodi system to control my Denon AVR for things like volume control and switching inputs. While it was fairly easy to adjust Kodi's keymap to map certain remote buttons to execute scripts via RunScript(), the latency was simply too high, and got even worse when the Kodi system was doing anything CPU intensive. So I wrote a service addon which can support raw IR blasting (via the emitters provided by my MCEUSB receiver). This is a proof-of-concept code drop mostly, as there are bits that are hard-coded to my particular setup, but I wanted to make it available for anyone else that was wanting to have low-latency IR blasting support too. If anyone wants to help make this project a more generic solution, please hit me up!
Code: https://github.com/jpsutton/service.irblaster
Cheers!
