Sunday, 19 May 2013

Unsupported infrared (IR) remote in Ubuntu

Unsupported infrared (IR) remote in Ubuntu

I have an infrared eye and remote, named IR 507 and RC105, which only has Windows-support (drives avaliable on http://edio-rc105-ir507.driver.soft32download.com/). Seems I only use Ubuntu nowadays, I wonder if I can make this work at all with Linux.
I have downloaded the Lirc tarbox but this not include drivers for mentioned remote. My experience of Linux is that most things will work in any way, such as if I manually "mapping" the remote's buttons with the infrared eye.
My questions to the community are therefore,
How do I connect a unsupported IR-receiver to the system?
How do I "learn" the receiver to understand different buttons from the remote?
Is there any other preferable way to make it work?
I thought about Wine, but will this make the remote implemented in system-commands?
Manual is available for download from qstarz, search "rc105 ir507" at Google (I didn't know how to refer to this .pdf with link). I use an Latitude D630 32-bit with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Thanks in advance.

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