Changing the system volume with a lirc enabled remote can be a pain in the arse if you don’t know what to look for. If you do, it’s quite simple:<\/p>\n
There is a package called ‘pulseaudio-module-lirc’<\/strong> (PulseAudio’s Wiki for module-lirc<\/a>) that contains the volume control module for the PulseAudio sound server.<\/p>\n Install the package via yum<\/p>\n and enable it<\/p>\n Here is a sample Available configs<\/em> include: volume-up<\/em>, volume-down<\/em>, mute<\/em>, mute-toggle<\/em> and reset<\/em>. <\/p>\n Eventually, you have to reload PulseAudio:<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you happen to have multiple PulseAudio sinks<\/strong>, you may want to modify where you can get the sink name from PulseAudio manager ‘paman’<\/strong> (flip to the ‘devices’ tab, and copy the name of the sink that you want the lirc module to control).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Changing the system volume with a lirc enabled remote can be a pain in the arse if you don’t know what to look for. If you do, it’s quite simple: There is a package called ‘pulseaudio-module-lirc’ (PulseAudio’s Wiki for module-lirc) that contains the volume control module for the PulseAudio sound server. Install the package via yum # yum install pulseaudio-module-lirc… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,30],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fedora","tag-lirc","tag-pulseaudio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\n# yum install pulseaudio-module-lirc\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# echo "load-module module-lirc" >> \/etc\/pulse\/default.pa\r\n<\/pre>\n
~\/.lircrc<\/code><\/strong> entry configured to forward signals to PulseAudio. Note that you may have to change the remote name<\/em> and button names<\/em> to match those in you \/etc\/lirc\/lircd.conf<\/code><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\r\nbegin\r\n remote = [your remote name]\r\n prog = pulseaudio\r\n config = volume-down\r\n button = [your vol_down button name]\r\n repeat = 0\r\nend\r\n\r\nbegin\r\n remote = [your remote name]\r\n prog = pulseaudio\r\n config = volume-up\r\n button = [your vol_up button name]\r\n repeat = 0\r\nend\r\n\r\nbegin\r\n remote = [your remote name]\r\n prog = pulseaudio\r\n config = mute-toggle\r\n button = [your mute button name]\r\nend\r\n<\/pre>\n
\r\n# killall pulseaudio && pulseaudio -D\r\n<\/pre>\n
\/etc\/pulse\/default.pa<\/code><\/nobr> like this<\/p>\n\r\n[...]\r\nload-module module-lirc sink=[your sink name]\r\n[...]\r\n<\/pre>\n