 RemoteD is a daemon that will perform certain commands when it
 detects keypresses from Remote Master connected to serial port.
 By default it allows changing of current VT, playing CD-ROM audio
 tracks from your CD-ROM (and also eject it) and change sound volume
 without ever touching your keyboard and/or mouse. All that you need
 is Remote Master (remote control device that consists of 2 parts:
 one is IR-receiver connected to serial port of your computer, 
 another one is touch pad).
 You can redefine action taken by any of buttons.
 For me it is good to assign commands, restoring ascii mode on keyboard,
 and call to restoretextmode, since I have no network at home, and if
 quake (or doom, or any other thing) crashed I can restore sane settings
 of console, or even reboot, if needed.
 You can force REmoted to reload its configuration file by sending SIGHUP.
 
 In future locking of vt and may be other useful things will be added.
 
 If you enjoy with RemoteD then drop me a line. Let me know if you have 
 any suggestions.

Note: I do not know does RemoteD  works with any other device than 
"Remote Master", however support may be added very easy.
 
You can get in contact with the author Oleg Drokin by e-mail:

green@ccssu.crimea.ua
