Vitaliy Alexeyev

synshell · Phone · syn-remote

IR remote control

IR remote control for the synshell desktop — a phone with an IR LED controls TVs, air conditioners, projectors and more.

READMEAUR package: syn-remote-binAUR package: syn-remote-git
Remote

Features

  • Code database — about 9,000 remotes from the open Flipper-IRDB, downloaded in the app (about 20 MB); universal codes from the Flipper Zero firmware.
  • Finding a remote — pick the device type and brand (or “I don't know the brand”), point the phone and answer whether the device reacted; test with Power, Mute or Volume +; auto search sends a code every 3 seconds.
  • Search — by brand and model, or pick a model from the list.
  • Remote layouts — TVs and other media devices get a full remote (D-pad, volume and channels, playback, color keys, app keys); air conditioners, fans, lights and others get power, temperature where there is one, and a button grid; every other button of the remote is under “Other buttons”.
  • My remotes — saved remotes, rename and delete.
  • Protocols — NEC, NECext, NEC42, Samsung32, RC5, RC5X, RC6, SIRC, Kaseikyo, RCA, Pioneer and raw recordings.
  • Computer and phone — sidebar on a wide window, pages on a phone; full screen (F11); 14 languages.
New remote Finding a remote Code database
New remote Finding a remote Code database

Signals go out through the syn-ir program (phones with an IR LED). Without it the buttons only light up; SYN_REMOTE_IR can name another program with the same interface.

Install

Arch Linux (AUR) — x86_64 and aarch64:

yay -S syn-remote-bin      # prebuilt
yay -S syn-remote-git      # built from source

Depends on synshell-core. Part of the synshell metapackage: yay -S synshell-bin installs the whole desktop. From source: cargo build --release -p syn-remote in the synshell repository.

Command line

syn-remote --download                     # download the code database
syn-remote --send "LG · TV" power         # press a button of a saved remote (or of an .ir file)
syn-remote --timings remote.ir power      # print the pulse timings (µs) without sending
syn-remote --screenshot shot.png --size 1400x900 --scale 1 --page remote
                                          # window snapshot (pages: home, add, db, brands, remote, pick, found)

Part of synshell

syn-remote is one of the applications of synshell — a Wayland desktop environment in Rust for computers and phones, built on the syngui UI framework.

License

GPL-3.0-only