Project status

[bengtmartensson]

This project was started some five and a half years ago. (Actually, I have been working on a predecessor project, IrpMaster, which "donated" some ideas and code, so in a sense the project is older than that.)

Now, I think that the goals I had then have been reached. In this sense, the project can be considered as mature and "finished", although not frozen.

Of course, bug reports, -fixes, new protocols, etc, are welcome as always. My plan is to collect minor improvements, bug fixes, and additional protocols, and likely to publish a new version once or twice every year.

Open issues:

• There is a "quirk" in the loose-mode decoding, Decoder.decodeLoose: NEC2 signals are erroneously turned NEC #168, when the repeat is reduced too much. I do not consider it too sinister; loose mode is by nature somewhat heuristic anyhow.
• Parameters are implemented using Java's long data type, which essentially gives 63 useful bits. Work has started on allowing unlimited length parameters using Java's bigInteger, Eliminate Long restrictions for protocol parameters #38. Although I am convinced of the feasibility, it is unlikely that I will ever complete this task.
• There are a number of suggestions for improving the bulk analyzer. Although these suggestions are sensible, it is unlikely I will implement these; the main reason being that bulk analysis of IR signals is presently not exactly a hot topic.

There are two projects that directly extend the present one:

• IrpTransmogrifier-GUI is an unfinished GUI for the (bulk) decoding and analyze features.
• IrProtocolCodeGeneration. The present project contains support for IR protocol code generation using XSLT and StringTemplate. The target specific code is XLST and StringTemplate has been relocated to this project. The GitHub project contains a number of issues for interesting target languages.

In addition to these, IrpTransmogrifier is presently used in the projects:

• IrScrutinizer
• RMIR/RemoteMaster
• Girr
• HarcHardware
• RemoteMaster/RMIR

[bengtmartensson]

Next release, 1.2.10 will be considered as "Long Time Stable". The current CI build is the release candidate 1. Please report any issues. Final release of 1.2.10 is soon to follow.

[bengtmartensson]

Version 1.2.11 was released in May 2022. It also contains minor extensions and bug fixes, none very important (see the release notes). It can effectively also be considered LTS (I use the term more informally than e.g. Ubunto).

Recently, it @seanyoung pointed out a problem caused by the questionable feature of removing intro- and ending sequences identical to the repeat. This "questionable feature" was recently removed (#224). This calls for a new release, probably called 1.2.12, but I do not consider it really urgent.