That’s right, as promised, there is now (rough) code to program your harmony in Linux! I can’t take credit for making it work. Kevin Timmerman did all the reverse-engineering to make it work, so much of the code is his. My contributions have been cleanup, de-windows-ifications (the code works in Windows and Linux, but was originally written for Windows), and various readability improvements. So the hard stuff like “oh, we need to send 0xA3 0x04” is Kevin. Like any of us, Kevin was hurrying to make it work, so clean-ups like “hmm, lets move those to defines” is me.<\/p>\n
In the next few days, all this code will be checked into source-code control on SourceForge (or similar).<\/p>\n
In the meantime, there isn’t a help message, or a whole lot of documentation. Compiling it (there are instructions for this!), and running “harmony <file>” where <file> is what you downloaded from the harmony site, should do the trick though.<\/p>\n
Currently it can do a Connectivity Test, update the remote’s program, and even learn IR codes from other remotes! A lot of UI and documentation work will come in the next few weeks – this just gets the code out there!<\/p>\n
The code can be found here<\/a>! This version is the latest I received from Kevin plus a cleanups and documentation from me.<\/p>\n By the time you read this, Kevin and I will both have plenty of changes pending. We are definitely looking for help and contributors, but I encourage you all to wait a week or so until we get this into public source-code control, and get some of our pending changes in. That should make it easier for us to apply patches and easier for you to not write patches we’ve already checked in.<\/p>\n Still no word from Logitech.<\/p>\n Update 1<\/strong>: I’ve applied for a sourceforge project. Hopefully that will get approved tomorrow. I’ve also released version 0.7<\/a> as well. This starts to factor out the very large main loop, adds a –help option, converts the code to use getopt, and adds some more documentation. Enjoy!<\/p>\n Update 2<\/strong>: Version 0.8<\/a>! Finished factoring out harmony.cpp. Now we can do some neat things to make the UI better. Added a TODO file with some thoughts on the two possibilities for the new UI. Fixed up the help output. Added a few error messages. SF project not approved yet, but I’ll probably wait to make UI changes until I have that so I can use source-code control. Also, I’m not clear how cross-platform getopt is. We may need to include it in the distribution. Don’t think anything good is included with Windows for this.<\/p>\n