SIMULATE support request

Would it be possible to add SIMULATE support in lirc_web ?

I have special interest in controlling RF devices in lirc_web. Actually something's wrong with lirc_web and SIMULATE. irsend SIMULATE commands that work just fine in a shell does nothing via lirc_web.

jimjamurcode looked into this already but he made too many changes for me to identify what's missing in the master branch.

Quoting JimJamUrCode : " From my research and digging through lirc_web source, lirc_web was unable to send a SIMULATE command without a little bit of modification. lirc_web did have the correct call in its irsend.js file, but the express node server and corresponding JQUERY ajax post command was missing. A few modifications to index.swig, config.json and lircrc file and I was able to create remotes with buttons that controlled RF devices all working from within lirc_web."

[alexbain]

Okay, thanks for providing some context. I'll take a look at that merge request and see if I can work out what was required to get SIMULATE support working.

Can you share any resources you've got on how to get LIRC working with RF? I'd be curious how to go about doing this.

• Resources :

lircrc file format : http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html.
Controlling 433MHz RF outlets with a RPI : https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=66946&p=507171.
Another lircrc exemple :https://marklodato.github.io/2013/10/24/how-to-use-lirc.html.

Some notes :

• You need to add "--allow simulate" argument to /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

LIRCD_ARGS="--allow-simulate --uinput"

• I have issues with irexec if it's running as root user and lircrc confile file used is /etc/lirc/lircrc . In that condition the SIMULATE commands does nothing
  Don't know why but it only works with irexec running with pi user and lircrc config file used is ~/.lircrc

-My config may it helps:

pi@vivpi /etc/lirc $ tail -25 /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

begin remote

name SCREEN
bits 12
flags SPACE_ENC|CONST_LENGTH
eps 30
aeps 100

header 2453 529
one 1257 532
zero 660 532
gap 44813
toggle_bit_mask 0x0

  begin codes
      SCREEN_UP                    0x5D0
      SCREEN_STOP                  0xA90
      SCREEN_DOWN                  0x1D0
  end codes

end remote

pi@vivpi ~ $ cat ~/.lircrc
begin
prog = irexec
remote = SCREEN
button = SCREEN_UP
config = ssh vivpi2 sudo /home/osmc/Radio_Frecuency/433Utils/RPi_utils/codesend 2774882
end

begin
prog = irexec
remote = SCREEN
button = SCREEN_STOP
config = ssh vivpi2 sudo /home/osmc/Radio_Frecuency/433Utils/RPi_utils/codesend 2774888
end

begin
prog = irexec
remote = SCREEN
button = SCREEN_DOWN
config = ssh vivpi2 sudo /home/osmc/Radio_Frecuency/433Utils/RPi_utils/codesend 2774884
end

• Commands used to control the RF screen

  irsend SIMULATE "0000000000000a90 00 SCREEN_STOP SCREEN"
  irsend SIMULATE "00000000000005D0 00 SCREEN_UP SCREEN"
  irsend SIMULATE "00000000000001D0 00 SCREEN_DOWN SCREEN"

[JimJamUrCode]

@vivgarot - That is essentially how i did it in my fork. I also saw a different pull request that created an http device that allowed for polling of its status and changing its state. Pretty interesting. I never looked at all of the branches that lirc web has. My implementation of RF needs some serious work, I tried adding an rf device a little while ago and was appalled by my own code. I quickly remembered I spent a week during Christmas cranking that mess out. There is a lot in the config file that can be done automatically in code, which would greatly simplify it.

[JimJamUrCode]

If anyone is still interested, I have updated my fork with a much cleaner implementation of this.

Go here