The Project

The goals is to provide a bridge that converts received IR commands as keyboard events (provided by FLIRC USB device) into transport commands (e.g 'play', 'pause') that are send to the Roon API.

Features

support Roon transport commands
- play, stop, play_pause, pause
- skip, previous
allows to initate the volume when amplifier with rest API exists
- currently only Yamaha API version 1 is supported

Development Language

development language will be Python
documentation language will be English

Software Requirements

Python: roon-api, evdev

Hardware Devices

FLIRC USB device

Configuration

Roon zone name can be configured as Ansible host specific variable
service name, user and group can be configured in host specific variables
mapping between key codes and transport command can be configured in config/app_info.json

Deployment

Before being able to deploy the software the following steps have to be performed.

change the hostname in inventory.yml
add a new file that uses the same hostname as added above
change the variables accordingly
create a profile in ~/.ssh/config that matches the hostname above
copy your public SSH key to the deployment target
install the following requirements onto the target machine
- python3, python3-pip, python3-apt
- pip: setuptools
- git

cd deployment/
# check the setup

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml site.yml -C