klirc - Kinect UDP LIRC Client

[Late night coder]

Hello,


Time for the Linux media people to have their Kinect fun :) Please
meet "klirc";

http://midnightcode.org/projects/jupiter/code/klirc-1.0.tgz
http://midnightcode.org/projects/jupiter/code/klirc-1.0.tgz.md5

The klirc program was authored to provide a gesture-to-lirc
interface for the Kinect, under Linux. It will work with any LIRC
interfacing program (such as XBMC, mplayer, etc), but has been built/
tested for MythTV.

The user interface controls have been mapped identically to the
recently released "KinEmote" (of which I am not affiliated). I will
publish an instruction/user guide for klirc, but for now the KinEmote
guide is just as useful;

http://kinemote.googlecode.com/files/KinEmote%200.3%20Instructions.pdf

In summary, the awake gesture is a "front-back" motion toward the
Kinect with an open hand (palm facing the Kinect). Where the hand
comes "back" to, in space, becomes the centre of the mid plane.

Front Plane:
Centre: Enter

Mid Plane:
Left: Left
Right: Right
Up: Up
Down: Down

Back Plane:
Left: Escape
Right: Pause/Play (P)
Up: Menu (M)
Down: [Ignore]


The klirc program reads from a configuration file, and has been
written to generate the two LIRC configuration files that the user
will require;

To generate the needed lircd.conf from this configuration, run;
./klirc -l > /etc/lirc/lircd.conf

To generate a mythtv LIRC RC file, run;
./klirc -m > ~/.lirc/mythtv

To run lircd as a UDP listener;
lircd --driver udp

To run klirc with a local configuration file (i.e. in the pwd), run;
./klirc

The klirc program can run on either the MythTV Frontend or on a
separate host. If klirc isn't running on the MythTV Frontend server,
then change the lirc_server entry in the klirc.cfg configuration file
appropriately.

Additional details on building and running the program can be found
in the README in the tar-ball.


Enjoy.


... am looking forward to playing with the Kinect in autonomous
vehicles.