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-<section id="lirc_dev">
-<title>LIRC Device Interface</title>
-
-
-<section id="lirc_dev_intro">
-<title>Introduction</title>
-
-<para>The LIRC device interface is a bi-directional interface for
-transporting raw IR data between userspace and kernelspace. Fundamentally,
-it is just a chardev (/dev/lircX, for X = 0, 1, 2, ...), with a number
-of standard struct file_operations defined on it. With respect to
-transporting raw IR data to and fro, the essential fops are read, write
-and ioctl.</para>
-
-<para>Example dmesg output upon a driver registering w/LIRC:</para>
- <blockquote>
- <para>$ dmesg |grep lirc_dev</para>
- <para>lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 248</para>
- <para>rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver ir-lirc-codec (mceusb) registered at minor = 0</para>
- </blockquote>
-
-<para>What you should see for a chardev:</para>
- <blockquote>
- <para>$ ls -l /dev/lirc*</para>
- <para>crw-rw---- 1 root root 248, 0 Jul 2 22:20 /dev/lirc0</para>
- </blockquote>
-</section>
-
-<section id="lirc_read">
-<title>LIRC read fop</title>
-
-<para>The lircd userspace daemon reads raw IR data from the LIRC chardev. The
-exact format of the data depends on what modes a driver supports, and what
-mode has been selected. lircd obtains supported modes and sets the active mode
-via the ioctl interface, detailed at <xref linkend="lirc_ioctl"/>. The generally
-preferred mode is LIRC_MODE_MODE2, in which packets containing an int value
-describing an IR signal are read from the chardev.</para>
-
-<para>See also <ulink url="http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html">http://www.lirc.org/html/technical.html</ulink> for more info.</para>
-</section>
-
-<section id="lirc_write">
-<title>LIRC write fop</title>
-
-<para>The data written to the chardev is a pulse/space sequence of integer
-values. Pulses and spaces are only marked implicitly by their position. The
-data must start and end with a pulse, therefore, the data must always include
-an uneven number of samples. The write function must block until the data has
-been transmitted by the hardware. If more data is provided than the hardware
-can send, the driver returns EINVAL.</para>
-
-</section>
-
-<section id="lirc_ioctl">
-<title>LIRC ioctl fop</title>
-
-<para>The LIRC device's ioctl definition is bound by the ioctl function
-definition of struct file_operations, leaving us with an unsigned int
-for the ioctl command and an unsigned long for the arg. For the purposes
-of ioctl portability across 32-bit and 64-bit, these values are capped
-to their 32-bit sizes.</para>
-
-<para>The following ioctls can be used to change specific hardware settings.
-In general each driver should have a default set of settings. The driver
-implementation is expected to re-apply the default settings when the device
-is closed by user-space, so that every application opening the device can rely
-on working with the default settings initially.</para>
-
-<variablelist>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_FEATURES</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Obviously, get the underlying hardware device's features. If a driver
- does not announce support of certain features, calling of the corresponding
- ioctls is undefined.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_SEND_MODE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get supported transmit mode. Only LIRC_MODE_PULSE is supported by lircd.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_REC_MODE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get supported receive modes. Only LIRC_MODE_MODE2 and LIRC_MODE_LIRCCODE
- are supported by lircd.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_SEND_CARRIER</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get carrier frequency (in Hz) currently used for transmit.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_REC_CARRIER</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get carrier frequency (in Hz) currently used for IR reception.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_{G,S}ET_{SEND,REC}_DUTY_CYCLE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Get/set the duty cycle (from 0 to 100) of the carrier signal. Currently,
- no special meaning is defined for 0 or 100, but this could be used to switch
- off carrier generation in the future, so these values should be reserved.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_REC_RESOLUTION</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Some receiver have maximum resolution which is defined by internal
- sample rate or data format limitations. E.g. it's common that signals can
- only be reported in 50 microsecond steps. This integer value is used by
- lircd to automatically adjust the steps tolerance value in the lircd
- config file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_M{IN,AX}_TIMEOUT</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Some devices have internal timers that can be used to detect when
- there's no IR activity for a long time. This can help lircd in detecting
- that a IR signal is finished and can speed up the decoding process.
- Returns an integer value with the minimum/maximum timeout that can be
- set. Some devices have a fixed timeout, in that case both ioctls will
- return the same value even though the timeout cannot be changed.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_M{IN,AX}_FILTER_{PULSE,SPACE}</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Some devices are able to filter out spikes in the incoming signal
- using given filter rules. These ioctls return the hardware capabilities
- that describe the bounds of the possible filters. Filter settings depend
- on the IR protocols that are expected. lircd derives the settings from
- all protocols definitions found in its config file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_GET_LENGTH</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Retrieves the code length in bits (only for LIRC_MODE_LIRCCODE).
- Reads on the device must be done in blocks matching the bit count.
- The bit could should be rounded up so that it matches full bytes.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_{SEND,REC}_MODE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Set send/receive mode. Largely obsolete for send, as only
- LIRC_MODE_PULSE is supported.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_{SEND,REC}_CARRIER</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Set send/receive carrier (in Hz). Return 0 on success.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_TRANSMITTER_MASK</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This enables the given set of transmitters. The first transmitter
- is encoded by the least significant bit, etc. When an invalid bit mask
- is given, i.e. a bit is set, even though the device does not have so many
- transitters, then this ioctl returns the number of available transitters
- and does nothing otherwise.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Sets the integer value for IR inactivity timeout (cf.
- LIRC_GET_MIN_TIMEOUT and LIRC_GET_MAX_TIMEOUT). A value of 0 (if
- supported by the hardware) disables all hardware timeouts and data should
- be reported as soon as possible. If the exact value cannot be set, then
- the next possible value _greater_ than the given value should be set.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT_REPORTS</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Enable (1) or disable (0) timeout reports in LIRC_MODE_MODE2. By
- default, timeout reports should be turned off.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_REC_FILTER_{,PULSE,SPACE}</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Pulses/spaces shorter than this are filtered out by hardware. If
- filters cannot be set independently for pulse/space, the corresponding
- ioctls must return an error and LIRC_SET_REC_FILTER shall be used instead.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_MEASURE_CARRIER_MODE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Enable (1)/disable (0) measure mode. If enabled, from the next key
- press on, the driver will send LIRC_MODE2_FREQUENCY packets. By default
- this should be turned off.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_REC_{DUTY_CYCLE,CARRIER}_RANGE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>To set a range use LIRC_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE_RANGE/LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER_RANGE
- with the lower bound first and later LIRC_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE/LIRC_SET_REC_CARRIER
- with the upper bound.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_NOTIFY_DECODE</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>This ioctl is called by lircd whenever a successful decoding of an
- incoming IR signal could be done. This can be used by supporting hardware
- to give visual feedback to the user e.g. by flashing a LED.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SETUP_{START,END}</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Setting of several driver parameters can be optimized by encapsulating
- the according ioctl calls with LIRC_SETUP_START/LIRC_SETUP_END. When a
- driver receives a LIRC_SETUP_START ioctl it can choose to not commit
- further setting changes to the hardware until a LIRC_SETUP_END is received.
- But this is open to the driver implementation and every driver must also
- handle parameter changes which are not encapsulated by LIRC_SETUP_START
- and LIRC_SETUP_END. Drivers can also choose to ignore these ioctls.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>LIRC_SET_WIDEBAND_RECEIVER</term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Some receivers are equipped with special wide band receiver which is intended
- to be used to learn output of existing remote.
- Calling that ioctl with (1) will enable it, and with (0) disable it.
- This might be useful of receivers that have otherwise narrow band receiver
- that prevents them to be used with some remotes.
- Wide band receiver might also be more precise
- On the other hand its disadvantage it usually reduced range of reception.
- Note: wide band receiver might be implictly enabled if you enable
- carrier reports. In that case it will be disabled as soon as you disable
- carrier reports. Trying to disable wide band receiver while carrier
- reports are active will do nothing.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-</variablelist>
-<section id="lirc_dev_errors">
- &return-value;
-</section>
-</section>
-</section>
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