The Project

The goals is to provide a bridge that converts received IR commands as keyboard events (provided by FLIRC USB device) into transport commands (e.g 'play', 'pause') that are send to the Roon API.

Features

• support Roon transport commands

  • play, stop, play_pause, pause
  • skip, previous

• allows to initate the volume when amplifier with rest API exists

  • currently only Yamaha API version 1 is supported

Development Language

• development language will be Python
• documentation language will be English

Software Requirements

• Python: roon-api, evdev

Hardware Devices

• FLIRC USB device

Configuration

• Roon zone name can be configured as Ansible host specific variable
• service name, user and group can be configured in host specific variables
• mapping between key codes and transport command can be configured in config/app_info.json

Deployment

Before being able to deploy the software the following steps have to be performed.

• change the hostname in inventory.yml

• add a new file that uses the same hostname as added above

• change the variables accordingly

• create a profile in ~/.ssh/config that matches the hostname above

• copy your public SSH key to the deployment target

• install the following requirements onto the target machine

  • python3, python3-pip, python3-apt
  • pip: setuptools
  • git

cd deployment/
# check the setup

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml site.yml -C