IR-Blower consists of four parts.
- A GTK2 desktop client (written in Ruby/GTK) [Systray app + GUI window]
- An optional command line client
- A Server (written in Ruby)
- A hardware control (Written for Arduino)
The concept for the IR-Blower project is simple. Control a remote device via its inbuilt IR sensor from a desktop app running on a PC. Must be able to work in a Client/Server mode across local LAN's.
Hear is a screenshot of the current UI.
- Ruby
List of gems:
- socket
- syslog
- gtk3
- yaml
- serialport
- GTK2 support on your system.
- Arduino hardware / code
- Upload Arduino sketch to your arduino device.
- Place the file ir-blower-server.rb on the computer to act as the IR blower server.(arduino attached)
- Edit the server-config.yaml file to meet your needs and place it on the IR blower server.
- Edit the ir-blower-server.rb file to updat the location of the config file : YAML.load_file("server-config.yaml")
- Place the file ir-blower-client.rb on to your desktop system
- Place the fil esys-icn.png in the same location as the ir-blower-client.rb file
- Edit the client-config.yaml file to meet your needs
- Edit the ir-blower-client.rb file to update the location of the config file : YAML.load_file("server-config.yaml")
- Start the server as backbround process, then start the client on your pc.
Optionally you can use the ir-blower-lclient.rb to send commands to the server , from the server via the command line. For example you could have a cron entry that sends a button click for example :
05 00 * * * ir-blower-lclient.rb d1b6 > /dev/null 2>&1
This would at 5am send the button press "d1b6" to the server.