ir-ctl: add new tool for sending & receiving raw IR

Currently v4l-utils has no tooling provided for receiving and sending
raw IR using the lirc interface. Some of this can be done using various
tools from the user-space lirc package, but not everything is covered.

We want to be able to do the following:
 - List all the features that a lirc device provides
 - Set all possible receiving and sending parameters
 - Send raw IR, formatted as a text file
 - Record raw IR, with output in the same format as for sending
 - Testbed for lirc drivers. Driver misbehaviour is reported

The need for this is not new. The manufacturer of the IguanaWorks IR
device have a similar tool which is IguanaIR specific:

        http://www.iguanaworks.net/2012/igclient-examples/

Also RedRat3 provide a similar tools but this uses a signal database
for sending IR, and is redrat specific.

        http://www.redrat.co.uk/software/redrat-linux-ir-tools/

Lirc provides a tool for reading raw IR but no method of sending it.

        http://www.lirc.org/html/mode2.html

None of these provides full coverage of the basic raw IR lirc interface,
hence v4l-utils seems like logical place to provide this functionality. It
can be used as a tool for testing features of lirc drivers.

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils/Makefile.am b/utils/Makefile.am
index 2cb56f0d..a19617a4 100644
--- a/utils/Makefile.am
+++ b/utils/Makefile.am
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ SUBDIRS = \
 	libmedia_dev \
 	decode_tm6000 \
 	ivtv-ctl \
+	ir-ctl \
 	cx18-ctl \
 	keytable \
 	media-ctl \