IRGen

IRGen is Arduino-IRremote stripped of its Arduino dependencies. It runs on a desktop computer and simply generates raw IR codes for supported devices, printing them to stdout.

Build

Build using the provided Makefile:

make all

Or use cmake:

mkdir -p cmake-build-debug
cd cmake-build-debug
cmake ..
make

This should build all demos in the cmake-build-debug directory. Tested on clang-900.0.37 (Mac OSX 10.12.6) and gcc-5.4.0 (Ubuntu 16.04.4).

Usage

Run the demo executables in the cmake-build-debug directory. All demos support the --help command line switch, which can be used to view supported operations and device dependant usage instructions.

$ cd cmake-build-debug/
$ ./IR-lg-ac-demo --help
Usage:
./IR-lg-ac-demo [switch]
--help
--op=<0 ~ 2>
      0 : off
      1 : temp/flow --temp=<18 ~ 30> --flow=<0 ~ 2>
      2 : air_swing --swing=<0 or 1>
      3 : air_clean --clean=<0 or 1>
--type=<0 or 1> (optional)
      0 : tower
      1 : wall (default)
--heat=<0 or 1> (optional)
      0 : cool (default)
      1 : heat

By default all demos print raw code output to stdout and exit with EXIT_SUCCESS on success. Errors and usage instructions are sent to stderr with EXIT_FAILURE exit code. This guarantees calling programs that stdout will always only contain raw code output. This also allows the output to be piped to another program if that is desired.

$ ./IR-lg-ac-demo --op=1 --temp=20 --flow=2
+8350 -4250 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -500 +550 -500 +550 -1500 +550 -0

Use cases

You might want to use IRGen if:

• You wanted to try Arduino-IRremote and didn’t have an Arduino.
• You wanted to run Arduino-IRremote on some unsupported hardware.
• You wanted to generate your raw codes elsewhere (eg. on an IoT cloud/gateway) and send them to your IoT edge devices.