With Remote Buddy 2, you can record and send IR commands from your Mac using AppleScript.
What you need
- Remote Buddy 2 installed and running on your Mac (the trial version during the trial period will also work)
- a supported IR transmitter (right now: Flirc USB and many MCE IR receivers with transmitter)
- the remote of the device you want to send IR commands for
- optional: a USB extension cable to bring the IR transmitter close enough to the device to control
Recording an IR command using AppleScript
To record an IR command, use the irreceive command:
tell application id "com.iospirit.RemoteBuddy" irreceive format "microtimes" timeout 4 without noisecheck end tell
If you then press a button,
1801,809,918,808,918,809,926,800,918,809,918,808,918,809,918,1693,1798,813,913,813,914,813,914,0
Sending an IR command using AppleScript
The string returned by the irreceive command can then be used to send the IR command using irsend:
tell application id "com.iospirit.RemoteBuddy" irsend microtimes "1801,809,918,808,918,809,926,800,918,809,918,808,918,809,918,1693,1798,813,913,813,914,813,914,0" end tell
Other options
You can also record and send IR commands from the command line and directly in Remote Buddy 2.