[Banshee-List] Banshee LIRC Plugin

[Patrick van Staveren <trick vanstaveren us>]

Hey folks,

So I've been at it again, and I am currently working on a LIRC remote  
control plugin for Banshee.  Someone (I can't remember who) pointed to  
some code they found that did some very basic LIRC read code commands.  
 The code itself was useless, but nonetheless it inspired me to get  
working on a c# set of bindings for lirc, which can then be in turn  
used by a banshee plugin.  Thanks to whoever it was that brought it  
up...i've been meaning to start hacking on this one for a few months  
now :)

I've spent the last few days ironing out bugs in the lirc-sharp  
library that I've written, and I'll be soon writing a LIRC plugin for  
Banshee to control pretty much anything I can think of, including:

Toggling playback (play/pause)
Next / Previous track
Fast-forward and rewind
Changing Banshee's volume

In the future, possibly adding some other functionality:
Changing sources
Raising the window (great for when you're across the room and want to  
see the interface if it's on another workspace)
Anything else?

If you have any bright ideas - such as other things that it'd be neat  
to see controlled with your remote - let me know!

Also, if you have been working on a plugin of similar functionality,  
do let me know so we can avoid duplicating effort.  I'll be publishing  
the plugin to Banshee subversion in the next few days, and lirc-sharp  
as well (somewhere, I'm not sure yet where best to publicly host a  
small project like this).

Cheers,

Patrick



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Patrick "Trick" van Staveren
Western Michigan University
Cell: 269.267.6008
http://trick.vanstaveren.us