A new version of eiri – the Extended IR Interface for the Western Digital TV HD (WDTV) – has been released. eiri allows you to use other remotes with the WDTV, to remap keys from the WDTV remote to new key sequences and to execute shell scripts with the remote. For example you can remap a key on your remote to change the movie language with just one key press instead of doing it complicated via the options menu. Furthermore eiri enables you to send commands to the WDTV from the command line or remotely via network.
This version introduces some new features and fixes a bug in the command line interface:
- added support to remap IR commands
- added support to map commands from other remotes to WDTV commands
- added support to execute shell commands triggered by an IR code
- fixed: some sleep intervals did not work with the command line client
To adapt the configuration of eiri simply modify the file eiri.conf.txt on your USB stick. It already contains some example configurations to get you started. A detailed documentation will follow. A tip, to get the IR codes for a new remote you can connect via telnet to eiri and see all IR codes: telnet >wdtv IP< 14247
The new application image is available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/wdtvtools/files/eiri/eiri-r189-wdtv.zip/download. As always, to use it simply extract all files to your boot USB stick.
All eiri files can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=261153&package_id=325092.
eiri is part of the WDTV Tools project. For more tools and information take a look at the WDTV Tools homepage: http://wdtv.elmarweber.org.
very well done.
Thanks for doing such a great job!
Is it possible to telnet to this device WD HD TV via IrDA ?
Cheers
Comment by a142857 — July 18, 2009 @ 11:17
Nope, it has no IR transmitter, just a receiver. You must have a network adapter in place or use use the serial port (requires soldering some wires in the device).
Comment by Elmar Weber — July 18, 2009 @ 19:00
Thanks for doing such a great job!
One question: is it possible to SUPPRESS standard IR commands?
To elaborate:
There is a know compatibility problem with some Samsung (in power saving modes)/Philips HDTVs. They emit infrared noise which WDTV understands as infrared command and stops responding to its remote.
Comment by Kartu — July 23, 2009 @ 09:21
Hi,
sorry if this is a doublepost, but my previous comment still didn’t show up.
Does this tool allow to suppress existing remote commands? (this is needed by Samsung/Philips owners, these TVs emit a lot of infrared noise that confuses WDTV)
p.s.
And thanks for doing such a great job!
Comment by Kartu — July 24, 2009 @ 09:30
Hi,
yes you can do that, you just have to bind the bogus IR signals to dummy commands. There will be more documentation soon on how to do that. For now you can read the thread in the WDTV Forum at http://wdtvforum.com/main/index.php?topic=1401.0
ciao,
Elmar
Comment by Elmar Weber — July 24, 2009 @ 15:12
Hi,
first of all thanks for the great job!
Take this as my small contribution:
in eirid.c
if (’\n’ == tmp) {
printf(”Processing: %s”, buffer);
must be
if (’n’ == tmp) {
printf(”Processing: %s”, buffer);
Ciao
Max
Comment by xMx — October 6, 2009 @ 20:12