.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.36.
.TH IRRECORD "1" "September 2010" "irrecord $Revision: 5.101 $" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
irrecord - application for recording IR-codes for usage with LIRC
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B irrecord
[\fIoptions\fR] \fIfile\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program will record the signals from your remote control and create
a config file for lircd. A proper config file for lircd is maybe the
most vital part of this package, so you should invest some time to
create a working config file. Although I put a good deal of effort in
this program it is often not possible to automatically recognize all
features of a remote control.

If the program fails to recognize the protocol of the remote control you
should use the \-\-force option to at least create a config file in raw mode.

If \fIfile\fR already exists and contains a valid config irrecord will use the
protocol description found there and will only try to record the
buttons. This is very useful if you want to learn a remote where config
files of the same brand are already available. Of course this will only
work if the remotes use the same protocol but it's worth a try. You will
find template files for the most common protocols in the
remotes/generic/ directory of this package. The name of the new file is
created by appending .conf to the given filename in this case.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR \fB\-\-help\fR
display this message
.TP
\fB\-v\fR \fB\-\-version\fR
display version
.TP
\fB\-a\fR \fB\-\-analyse\fR
analyse raw_codes config files
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fB\-\-force\fR
force raw mode
.TP
\fB\-n\fR \fB\-\-disable\-namespace\fR
disables namespace checks
.TP
\fB\-l\fR \fB\-\-list\-namespace\fR
list valid button names
.TP
\fB\-H\fR \fB\-\-driver\fR=\fIdriver\fR
use given driver
.TP
\fB\-d\fR \fB\-\-device\fR=\fIdevice\fR
read from given device
.SH "SEE ALSO"
The documentation for
.B lirc
is maintained as html pages. They are located under html/ in the
documentation directory.

Further information on this topic is available in section "Adding new
remote controls" in html/help.html