LIRC VS Remote Mouse

You could possibly start with https://lirc.org/ - this is the lowest level IR control. Source: 11 months ago

This site will be helpful too: Linux Inferred Remote Control. Source: about 1 year ago

You need to buy a USB adapter, and possibly fiddle with drivers. Start here: https://lirc.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

Based on my 2 minutes of searching, it looks like this is a configuration database for the Linux Infrared Remote Control project, or LIRC, which (according to their website) lets you both decode and send IR commands to emulate a remote control. I think the idea is if you had a Raspberry Pi or some kind of GPIO interface on a Linux box, you could potentially have a truly universal remote (or at least, one that can... Source: over 1 year ago

Interesting. I control all sorts of things around my house using a raspberry pi with thr Linux version of this capability, LIRC. Heat pump, stereo, TV. Might be more fun to try on arduino. I wonder if it works with esp8266. https://lirc.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

RemoteMouse (remotemouse.net) I did it through wifi, there's no noticeable lag. It has left-click if you hold, and rightclick if you press hard or hold long (but that didn't work as well). Source: about 1 year ago

There's this remotemouse.net which would make my iPhone function as a trackpad/mouse. Source: over 1 year ago