IR Remote Control for HC2

[FJW 2]

Hi,

 

I was looking fora n IR remote control to use with my HC2 but found nothing that suited my needs.

A few weeks ago I came across a linux programm called “TriggerHappy”. Triggerhappy claimed to trigger events for key presses.

Although I am NO linux expert I looked around the internet for more information about triggerhappy and now I have a working IR remote control that does everything I wanted.

If you can control HC2 via api calls, you can control it via triggerhappy. I use “curl” to send the commands.

 

I had on old Raspberry Pi (I thing model 3) and an extra Flirc USB IR receiver and, of course, a power supply.

The Flirc IR receiver converts ir remote control signals to key presses. This can easily be configured with the software from Flirc.

 

On the RPI I installed Raspbian Buster, this comes with “TriggerHappy preinstalled”.

 

The triggers for triggerhappy must be stored in: /etc/triggerhappy/triggers.d and can be any name but must have the extension: .conf. I called mine: remote.conf.

 

In this conf file you can add all the keys for your remote control. Together with the curl command to execute.

 

After creating / changing the conf file you must restart triggerhappy to activate the changes with the following command:

 

sudo systemctl restart triggerhappy

Or

sudo /etc/int.d/triggerhappy restart

 

On my HC2 I created a Virtual Device with buttons for my remote. I have a “remote” users that only has rights to this VD (but you could also access scenes). Just a safety precaution. I use this user in the curl command.

Now you should have a working IR remote control for your Home Center. I am not sure if it also would work with HC Lite.

Here are a few of my conf file entries: (see TriggerHappy for explanations)

 

KEY_P   1       /usr/bin/curl -u USER:PWD -S "http://HC_IP/api/callAction?deviceID=309&name=pressButton&arg1=4"

 

KEY_P is the key on the keyboard, 1 stands for key press and after that is the curl command.

 

Ctrl End key combination:

KEY_END+KEY_LEFTCTRL    1       /usr/bin/curl -u USER:PWD -S "http://HC_IP/api/callAction?deviceID=309&name=pressButton&arg1=1"

 

Press VD button:

KEY_SPACE   1       /usr/bin/curl -u USER:PWD -S "http://HC_IP/api/callAction?deviceID=309&name=pressButton&arg1=4"

 

Call scene:

KEY_F1   1       /usr/bin/curl -u USER:PWD -S "http://KODI:[email protected]/api/sceneControl?id=65&action=start"

 

 

 Cheers,

FJW.

[rvelthoen 12]

So Flirc is not only a receiver, but also a IR transmitter?

 

Tnx for the howto.

Edited January 8, 2020 by rvelthoen

[FJW 2]

No, Flirc is just a receiver.