Since Linux 4.18, IR is now handled in-kernel and IR events appear just like keyboard or mouse events, making the LIRC daemon and clients (like python-lirc) mostly redundant. The new way to configure keymaps is using ir-keytable which comes with v4l-utils. See #28 (comment)
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pip3 install python3-lirc
You need a valid lircrc configuration file. For example:
$ cat ~/.lircrc
begin
button = 1 # what button is pressed on the remote
prog = myprogram # program to handle this command
config = one, horse # configs are given to program as list
end
begin
button = 2
prog = myprogram
config = two
end
$ python3
>>> import lirc
>>> sockid = lirc.init("myprogram")
>>> lirc.nextcode() # press 1 on remote after this
['one', 'horse']
>>> lirc.deinit()
Load custom configurations with:
>>> sockid = lirc.init("myprogram", "mylircrc")
>>> lirc.load_config_file("another-config-file") # subsequent configs
Set whether nextcode blocks or not with:
>>> sockid = lirc.init("myprogram", blocking=False)
>>> lirc.set_blocking(True, sockid) # or this
If you want to install manually then you may also need to install cython and some dev libraries:
sudo apt install cython gcc liblircclient-dev python{,3}-{dev,setuptools}
Download, compile and install for Python 3 and 2.
git clone https://github.com/tompreston/python-lirc.git
cd python-lirc/
make py3 && sudo python3 setup.py install
make py2 && sudo python setup.py install
- Install the dev libraries as above.
- Make changes to
lirc/lirc.pyx. - Compile with
make py3 && python3 setup.py build - Test with
python3 tests/tests.py