WinLIRC

Quick Overview

The System Tray

WinLIRC spends most of its life sitting happily in your system tray.  Four colored icons represent the different states of WinLIRC:

• Initializing the hardware and reading the configuration.
• The hardware is not initialized, or an initialization error occurred.
• Ready to receive signals.  This is the icon you'll usually see.
• A signal was successfully decoded.  This icon appears only momentarily.
• A signal was sent.  This icon appears only momentarily.

Double-clicking on the system tray icon will toggle the main WinLIRC window.   Right-clicking on the system tray icon will bring up a small menu allowing you to either toggle the main WinLIRC window or exit WinLIRC.
 

The Main WinLIRC Window

• Reconfigure
  Brings up the configuration dialog box
• Hide Window
  Removes the WinLIRC window from the screen (WinLIRC remains in the system tray and will still be running)
• Exit LIRC
  Completely quit WinLIRC
• Remote combobox
  Selects the remote configuration to be used for transmitting
• Code combobox
  Selects the code to send
• Repeats combobox
  The number of times to repeat a code (enter 0 to send it once)
• Send Code
  Transmits an infrared code

The Configuration Window

• Port combobox
  The serial port that the hardware is connected to.  Select from the list or type the name manually (for non-standard port names).
• Speed combobox
  Sets the serial port to this speed. This important for the RX receiver.
• Sense combobox
  Sets whether your receiver is active high or active low.   "Autodetect" is recommended unless that gives you problems.
• Receiver type
  Selects the type of receiver.
  • RX device radio
    The receiver uses the RX pin (RX receiver details).
  • DCD device radio
    The receiver uses the DCD pin (DCD receiver details).
• Virtual pulse editbox
  Sets the pulse length for RX receivers.
• Animax checkbox
  Sets the DTR pin high (Animax receivers use this pin for power).
• No tray icon checkbox
  Hides the tray icon. Running WinLIRC again will bring up the main dialog.
• Transmitter settings
  Sets the default transmitter type.
  • Inverted checkbox
    Swaps the sense of the output signal (ignored for TX transmitters that use a software carrier).
  • Hardware carrier checkbox
    Prevents WinLIRC from generating a carrier frequency.
  • DTR radio
    The transmitter is on the DTR pin. These transmitters are not recommended.
  • TX radio
    The transmitter is on the TX pin. The same transmitters, but with the signal wire attached to the TX pin instead of the DTR pin. Performance is greatly improved.
• Config editbox
  The full path to the configuration file.
• Browse
  Brings up a standard Windows file selection dialog box to pick your configuration file.
• Learn
  Go through the procedure of learning a new remote control.  The new configuration is written into the file listed in the "Config" box.  The learning process is guided and fairly straightforward.
• Analyze
  Try to analyze the raw data stored in the configuration file.  This is usually done after a "Learn".  A successful analysis will allow WinLIRC to recognize infrared signals much faster.
• Raw Codes
  Prints the raw timing data received from the remote, similar to the "mode2" program distributed with LIRC.  This is the best way to ensure that your hardware is working properly.
• OK
  Save the configuration to the registry.
• Cancel
  Cancels the changes.  Note that the configuration file itself may have already been saved by the "Learn" or "Analyze" procedure.

Copyright (C) 1999 Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>.
Copyright (C) 2000 Scott Baily <baily@users.sourceforge.net>.
Last update: Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 08:27 PM
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