Infared Reciever w/ Alpine on the Bulldozer Datto

Had some issues with the bootloader after installing alpine originally, ended up using ventoy's "Local Boot" option to get into my alpine install and then manually installed grub using: grub-install

Now we need to get wifi working: [1]

vim /etc/apk/repositories and uncomment the community repo

We'll be needing these packages:

apk add networkmanager networkmanager-wifi wpa_supplicant networkmanager-tui networkmanager-cli

Networkmanager needs udev to work for wifi:

setup-devd udev

Getting infared working:

Looks like alpine has some infared tools in a package called:

v4l-utils and ir_keytable

ir-ctl -d /dev/lirc0 -r

running this gets me data when i click ir buttons on some remotes

Figured out LIRC, on alpine the config is in /usr/etc/lirc/

first we need to install it:

apk install lirc

lirc_options.conf:

 # These are the default options to lircd, if installed as
 # /etc/lirc/lirc_options.conf. See the lircd(8) and lircmd(8)
 # manpages for info on the different options.
 #
 # Some tools including mode2 and irw uses values such as
 # driver, device, plugindir and loglevel as fallback values
 # in not defined elsewhere.
 [lircd]
 nodaemon        = True
 driver          = default
 device          = auto
 output          = /var/run/lirc/lircd
 pidfile         = /var/run/lirc/lircd.pid
 plugindir       = /usr/lib/lirc/plugins
 permission      = 666
 allow-simulate  = No
 repeat-max      = 600
 #effective-user =
 #listen         = [address:]port
 #connect        = host[:port]
 #loglevel       = 6
 #release        = true
 #release_suffix = _EVUP
 #logfile        = ...
 #driver-options = ...
 [lircmd]
 uinput          = False
 nodaemon        = False
 # [modinit]
 # code = /usr/sbin/modprobe lirc_serial
 # code1 = /usr/bin/setfacl -m g:lirc:rw /dev/uinput
 # code2 = ...
 # [lircd-uinput]
 # add-release-events = False
 # release-timeout    = 200
 # release-suffix     = _EVUP

Make a folder called lircd.conf.d, place this file inside: https://kirbfeels.luccapirovano.com/library/ArchivalPurposes/wiki-files/infared%20project/BN59-01175B.lircd.conf

(you can get additional remote configs here)

lirc will detect the file automatically when it is opened

Now we need to run lirc daemon: lircd

below is a script that will allow you to execute bash commands based on remote presses, taking advantage of irw's output:

#!/bin/bash
irw |
while 
 read;
 do
  if echo "$REPLY" | fgrep "01 KEY_0"; then echo "this is button 0"; fi
  if echo "$REPLY" | fgrep "01 KEY_1"; then echo "this is button 1"; fi
  if echo "$REPLY" | fgrep "01 KEY_2"; then echo "this is button 2"; fi
  if echo "$REPLY" | fgrep "00 KEY_3"; then echo "this is button 3"; fi
 done