This package is created from the upstream lirc project's main build flow. If you have installed LIRC either from a package or directly from sources you don't need this. The primary usecase is when installing the LIRC api in a virtual environment.
The python package is not independent of the systemwide LIRC installation, it is just an API to access the system-wide LIRC from e. g, a virtual env.
The package is python3 only.
- A LIRC installation complete with header files (typically the -dev or -devel packages, or built from source).
- Tests requires
- ncat - see http://nmap.org/
- expect - see http://expect.nist.gov/
- Build and install lirc from source or install a LIRC package.
- Locate the python source distribution, typically in a location like /usr/share/lirc/lirc-0.10.0.tar.gz
- Use cmd like pip3 install /usr/share/lirc/lirc-0.10.0.tar.gz.
- As a shortcut, the python package is available in python-pkg/dist after a plain make in the lirc source tree.
See the main LIRC API docs, look for "Python bindings" under Modules. It is also possible to run Doxygen in the package doc/ directory to create some slightly less polished documents for just the python package.
The python package contains the lirctool script which demonstrates many aspects of the API. The systemwide LIRC installations has besides documentation (above) also smaller examples under doc/python-bindings.