WinLIRC VS LIRC

WinLIRC

WinLIRC allows you to transmit and receive standard infrared remote control signals.

LIRC

LIRC - linux infrared remote control

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DIY USB IR Receiver - Control your PC using any remote - (HTPC + WinLIRC)

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Category Popularity

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LIRC

Home

51 51%

Home

49% 49

Automation

50 50%

Automation

50% 50

Data Dashboard

49 49%

Data Dashboard

51% 51

Windows Tools

82 82%

Windows Tools

18% 18

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, LIRC should be more popular than WinLIRC. It has been mentiond 6 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

WinLIRC mentions (1)

Can I learn to remap a remote? How much do I need to learn? Time commitment to pick up this task?
The easy thing to change here is software that interfaces to the USB dongle and does stuff on the PC. This also requires some reverse-engineering. I think it would be best to create a driver to make the remote work with https://winlirc.sourceforge.net/ or other similar flexible software which supports multiple remotes. Source: over 1 year ago

LIRC mentions (6)

Macro commands IR remote?
You could possibly start with https://lirc.org/ - this is the lowest level IR control. Source: 11 months ago
How could I make a simple IR circuit to work as a remoto controller for a TV?
This site will be helpful too: Linux Inferred Remote Control. Source: about 1 year ago
Is there a way to make a raspberry pi send remote control IR signals?
You need to buy a USB adapter, and possibly fiddle with drivers. Start here: https://lirc.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
Collection of TV remotes
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
Library to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino
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