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Control LEGO Power Functions with a Raspberry Pi and an IR LED, using LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control).

LEGO Power Functions LIRC

Linux Infrared Remote Control configuration files for LEGO Power Functions RC v1.20.

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Setup

• Copy the included configuration files into the an appropriate folder (likely /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/lego).
• Add include directives to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf for each configuration file you wish to use, for example:

echo "include /etc/lirc/lircd.conf.d/lego/Combo_PWM" >> /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

• includes the necessary steps to get LIRC up and running on a Raspberry Pi.
• Jorge Pereira's blog post, Infrared Remote Control, demonstrates how to use LEGO LIRC with a headphone jack.

Known Issues

• The Extended Mode generation code is included, however, it has not yet been tested.
• Of Single Output Mode's two sub-modes, PWM is implemented while Clear/Set/Toggle/Inc/Dec is not.

References

Included:

- LEGO_Power_Functions_RC_v120 is a copy of LEGO's official documentation for their protocol.

- LPF_RC_Protocol contains a summarized protocol definition and encoding/decoding timing parameters.

- LPF_RC_Modes contains summarized mode-specific data and deviations from the standard protocol.

- LIRC_Remote contains common LIRC lircd.conf-style configuration file settings for the LEGO RC protocol.

Compatible Hardware: 8884 IR Receiver | 8885 IR Remote Control | 8879 IR Speed Remote Control

Referenced Documentation: LIRC Configuration File Format | LEGO Power Functions RC v1.20

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Released under the MIT License.

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Hi!
I was googling for a way to use LIRC to control Power Functions IR and found your lego-lirc repository.
I'm using an homemade IR transmitter (2 LED's connected to the audio output jack of my laptop) and with your config files I already can spin a motor, thank you very much!!!

I know it sounds strange to use audio card as a remote controller but I don't have anything USB-based and I need somthing that works seamless in my laptop (Ubuntu), in a Raspberry Pi (Debian) and a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 (with a USB audio card and running ev3dev, also Debian).

I searched for more info about this but found nothing, you don't have a blog or something do you?
I would like to post your conf files in my blog and link to here, is it OK?

Best regards,
Jorge

Combo_PWM button names.

Hi, should the button names in Combo_PWM be rendered with FWD1 etc from power_functions/combo_pwm.py? Also do you have an example of how to run your code to regenerate the configs? This is excellent work btw, and thanks for doing it! :D