lircrcd - Synchronize lircrc state among client
applications.
lircrcd [options] config-file
lircrcd reads the given .lircrc config file and
synchronises the mode that the LIRC clients such as irexec(1),
irxevent(1), etc., are in. Using lircrcd has to be explicitly
enabled in the lircrc config file by adding the following line at the
beginning of the file:
- lircrc_class default
This must be done at the top-level file, not an included one. The
lircrc_class string (here "default") could actually be anything;
clients using the same string in their lircrc will be synchronized.
- -h --help
- Display help message.
- -v --version
- Display version.
- -p, --permission=mode
- The --permission option gives the file permission of the Unix domain
socket lircrcd creates on startup in octal representation. Read the
documentation for chmod for further details. If no --permission option is
given when the socket is created the default is to give only the user
owning the file read and write permissions (0600 in octal
representation).
- -o, --output=socket
- With the --output option you can select the Unix domain socket, which
lircrcd will create. The default is to create a socket in VARRUNDIR
(/var/run/lirc), see FILES.
lircrcd syntactically uses the same protocol as lircd described in
the lircd(8) manpage. It supports the following commands:
- IDENT
ident
- Each program connecting to lircrcd identifies itself using this program.
ident is the string that is used in the Prog = token inside
the .lircrc file.
- CODE
code
- When the client receives the code string from lircd it will send it to
lircrcd and will receive back the applicable config string from the
.lircrc config file. It should resend the CODE command until nothing is
returned back which means that nothing (more) should happen in response to
code. This command is used each time the lirc_code2char() function
is called by a client.
- GETMODE
- lircrcd will return the current mode string.
- SETMODE
mode
- lircrcd will set the actual mode, reflecting a mode in the .lircrc file.
lircrcd creates its socket(s) in the VARRUNDIR directory
(/var/run/lirc). The socket basename includes the user UID and the string
from the lircrc_class option.
The documentation for lirc is maintained as html pages.
They are located under html/ in the documentation directory.