you can download it here.
they are under accessories/ir_controller
Right here I have a problem ā¦ I donāt know how to download plugin files as zip package.
I already got another link and installed the plugin.
It works great both as a receiver and (after a slight modification of the configuration and connection of the transmitting diode) as a transmitter.
This way, you can control older music equipment (amplifier, CD, etc.) using scripts connected to the SSH Button application on your phone!
Cool! I recommend!
for example use a program like filezilla, log in and place the infrared file in home/volumio.
open terminal and ssh in your volumio player and type ācd /home/volumio/ir_controllerā return, type āvolumio plugin installā and the installation will begin.
when the installation is finished hold down āCTRLā and then c.
if everything went well you can use plugin.
How to download from Github
Uploading to RPI and installing is not a problem
@loup I assume you are running Volumio 3. The plugins sources for Volumio 3 you find here. For plugins which have not been approved you may get the files from a pull request.
Other than for Volumio 2 for Volumio 3 there are no publicly downloadable .zip files for each plugin AFAIK. So you would have to download each file manually - or you download the whole repository: If you donāt clone via git you can click on the green button named āCodeā and choose āDownload ZIPā. I think pull requests are not included in this download so in case of the āvolumio-plugins-sourcesā repo you will receive only the content of the master branch.
Thatās what I meant! Thank you!
How to enable this plugin on Volumioā¦I am not able to see the IR Remote Configuration on Volumio. Please advise
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Just making life easier, so you donāt have to clone/download the whole repoā¦
ir_controller_3.4.7.zip (232.2 KB)
PS: Untested, unapproved and all the usual disclaimers of not installing it via the recommended official myVolumio store.
EDIT: of wow! The PR from November is still pending?!
@gvolt did you get any feedback as to why itās taking so long? The repo seems to have other plugins that have been updated in the meantime?
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Iām waiting for this plugin nearly as much as for the summer 
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Noā¦ 
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thanks, this makes life a lot easier 
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Is there any more testing that needs doing on the IR controller plugin to help it get officially reinstated ? If so Iām happy to manually install it and provide feedback/testing.
Or is everything up to date as far as you know but just needs checking and authorising by the Volumio devs ? I have a small dog in this hunt because apart from previously using it all the time in Volumio version 2 I provided the Xbox 360 IR remote profile.
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No idea, sorry! The core devs call the shots with the new myVolumio plugin store - you will have to reach out to Volumio or Mervinio
I think the few pending issues are likely related to the prompt command line in volumio backend , rather then the IR Remote Controller plugin itself.
See here for reference :
I donāt know if itās still present in Volumio 3 (since Iām not using the IR plugin yet) but there was a bug in Volumio 2 where the command line play controls would āstop respondingā if you issued too many in a row.
For example if you used skip track repeatedly on the IR remote a couple of times a second then after a few seconds it would sometimes stop responding to the remote - however the bug was not in the IR plugin, but the command line playback controls itself which the IR plugin calls, as I could reproduce the problem by executing the same command via the command line rapidly.
When it happened the command line would hang indefinitely without returning, this would cause the IR plugin to stop working as a result.
Sometimes it would time out after a few minutes and start working again, sometimes it needed a rebootā¦ frustrating if youāre just trying to rapidly skip past a few tracks with the remote then the remote stops working.
I remember reporting this last year but I canāt find which thread I mentioned it in.
This is (probably) a limitation of the REST client of Volumio.
I had similar issues when I was trying to send volume events via the rest client for the Spotify connect daemon. It was quite flaky, when sending grouped multiple events. Guess itās similar story for the next | prev commands.
Could someone clarify what the status is of this plugin?
Iām running v3.198 on a Pi Zero with a JustBoom DAC hat, and would like to use it with the IR remote that I have with the board. Used to work perfectly under v2, but if I look in the plugin store I donāt see this one listed?
Looking in the github repo (here) it looks like it should be available in the store, but itās not one of the ones listed if I go in there via the web dashboard?
Is it not available on a Pi Zero for some reason now or has something gone wrong?
Edited to add - installed it via the alternative (manual) route, and now fully up and running after a shutdown/restart (reboot only seemed to give an ALSA error and silent playback).
Just installed de ir_controller as mentioned above. Worked like a charm on three raspberryās.
Thanks for the tip!
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manual install method listed above worked fine for me. I got tired of waiting for the plugin to show up in the approved list.
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