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Keene Kira

The Keene Kira product family allows you to send infrared commands to your devices, based on commands, that they receive via the network. The Kira interface sends commands via TCP to a Kira gateway, which then passes the infrared commands to your devices. The Keene Kira interface sends commands via TCP to an Keene Kira gateway, which then passes the infrared commands to your devices.

Settings

The following settings are supported by the interface

Setting Description
Host Host-Name or IP-Address of your Keene Kira device. Discover is NOT supported by now.
Port Port Address of your iTach device. Default is 65432
FNCodeset Filename of your codeset. Without path
TimeToClose Timeout in seconds, until the connection from the interface to the device will be close.
  • -1 The connection will not be closed
  • 0 The connection will be closed immediately
  • all other, Timeout in seconds
DisableInterFaceOnError Disables the interface, if an error occurs. Prevents the interface to continue to send commands to a broken connection.
DisconnectInterFaceOnSleep Disconnects the interface, when your remote control device goes to sleep

The codeset file

You need to define the codeset filename, which contains the command set for your device (e.g.: which commands to send by given ORCA commands). The connector parameter is reserved for future extensions.

A simple codeset file could look like that:

```xml <codeset> <code></code> <code></code> <code></code> <code></code> <code></code> </codeset>```
Attribute Description
action Defines, to which ORCA action the Kira command should be send
cmd This is the command to transmit to Kira.

Variable replacements

Variable replacement: You can use variable placeholder to use variables in your Kira command string

var Description
{CHANNELREPEAT:"command"} Mainly used for channel selection, the parameter after the colon determs, which Kira command to send as single keystrokes.

Learning/Finding IR Commands

You should use the Keene IRAnywhere java Utility to learn infrared commands from your original remote to convert pronto hexcodes.

The iTach DB

ORCA can download / convert IR codes from the iTAch IR Code DB. (Control Tower). This is a large IR Code daabase. (Find it under settings-tools) Those codeset files are saved as CCF codesets and can be used by this interface!

You have to register at http://irdb.globalcache.com/ (It's free!)

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