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My main current project has to do with my home media system. Any sufficiently complex media system needs either more than one IR or RF remote, or it needs a un
by haikuginger 10y ago
My main current project has to do with my home media system.
Any sufficiently complex media system needs either more than one IR or RF remote, or it needs a universal remote.
The best universal remotes are activity based, and maintain information about the state of the overall system.
However, it's been my finding that many of them (looking at you, Logitech) focus on the software at the expense of high-quality hardware that's pleasant to use.
So, what's a person to do? Implement customizable command logic for a variety of command output formats (serial, IR, HDMI-CEC) state management (power on, power off, muted, projector screen open, lights on or off, etc.), and logic (power button does this if we're in state 1; otherwise do that and shift to state 3) in a webapp interface that runs on a Raspberry Pi and that can learn your favorite dumb remote's buttons via LIRC.
I'd love for anyone with an interest or a possible use case to reach out; right now, I'm just writing for myself.
Code: https://github.com/haikuginger/riker https://github.com/haikuginger/riker