NEEO driver for LIRC

Send IR commands with LIRC to control IR devices with NEEO which are not directly reachable by the brain.

• NEEO - The Thinking Remote: https://neeo.com
• Linux Infrared Remote Control: http://www.lirc.org/

Available commands are retrieved from lircd and dynamically added to the NEEO driver.

The LIRC daemon is controlled over a network connection with Node.js module lirc-client. This NEEO driver can run anywhere on the network, even on a Windows machine, as long as it's able to connect to the remote LIRC daemon. I'm running lircd on a Raspberry Zero-W and the driver on a Linux Intel server.

Attention: proof of concept only!

Needs lots of improvements and this is my first Node.js hack...

Tested with:

• NEEO SDK 0.47.8 https://github.com/NEEOInc/neeo-sdk
• LIRC 0.9.0-pre1 running on Raspbian Stretch light (2017-09-07)
• Denon DRA-F109 (see doc/lircd.conf)

Requirements

• Node.js >= v6.12 (https://nodejs.org)
• LIRC properly configured with activated network listening.
  • Make sure you are able to send IR commands with irsend
  • Telnet test to output all defined remotes in lircd.conf:

telnet <HOST> 8765
LIST

Installation

Download or clone the code from github.

git clone https://github.com/zehnm/neeo-lirc-gateway.git

Install required packages with npm

npm install

Configuration

Edit the config.json file to adjust the driver settings

• neeo.brainIp : IP address of the NEEO brain (optional).

  Auto discovery is active if not specified. See issue: NEEOInc/neeo-sdk#36

• neeo.callbackIp : IP address of machine running the driver (optional).

  Most likely required if auto discovery doesn't work.

• neeo.callbackPort : local port number for device server

• lirc.host : host name or address of lircd

• lirc.port : port number of lircd

Edit the key-mapping.json file to adjust LIRC to NEEO mappings

LIRC keys are automatically mapped if the name starts with prefix 'KEY_' or 'SRC_' for source inputs. All other keys can be mapped in key-mapping.json.

• Pay special attention to NEEO's button groups, i.e. the special button naming. See: https://github.com/NEEOInc/neeo-sdk
• The LIRC name is used if NEEO name is not specified.
• The NEEO label is derived from the key name if it's not specified.

Start the driver

node index.js