If you've dabbled with setting up a home media center, you've no doubt come to appreciate XBMC, the absolute best open source media player application available. And if you've used XBMC for any length ...

I have a FLIRC USB receiver connected to my Media PC running Linux. This kinda does in hardware what LIRC does in software; you can map remote control buttons to keys and it looks just like a HID ...

Sofabaton's app only exposes a fixed set of device profiles with predetermined commands — you can't define arbitrary IR codes. The workaround is to let FLIRC do the mapping: Pick any device profile in ...