Hello,
I was looking for the "IR Remote" library by Ken Sherriff in my Arduino IDE but can't find it. I found one by someone else though. How do I get it into my library?
Hi @jonny6363. You should use the Arduino Library Manager to install libraries whenever possible.
I think the reason you couldn't find it is you misspelled the name. The library's name is "IRremote" (note there is no space).
It will be listed in Arduino Library Manager as "IRremote by shirriff, z3t0, ArminJo"
Instructions for using Arduino Library Manager here:
This is completely optional, I only install libraries by downloading them from github.
In this case, I at least see what I'm installing.
Yes, it is optional, and I'm guess manually installing and updating libraries is a good option for you personally.
However, many users find manual installation and updates of libraries and their dependencies very challenging. Someone who is having trouble finding a library is likely to be in that category. So lets start out with the most straightforward approach. If the user later is being held back in some way by using Library Manager, we can instruct them in manual installations and updated. But many users will be perfectly happy with Library Manager alone.
OK, thanks for the help.
I found a library with the name "IRremote" by someone else. So I did some looking on GitHub and I found this under license.......
MIT License
(c) Copyright 2009 Ken Shirriff http://www.righto.com
(c) Copyright 2016 Rafi Khan
(c) Copyright 2020 Armin Joachimsmeyer et al.
The bottom name is who it shows up by in my library. So it looks like I have what I was looking for.
Yes, the IRremote library I found worked. I got some IR receivers yesterday and used that library in the sketch. It worked fine.
Thanks for the help.
Please mark your thread as "solved"
The library works but it's the newest version, 3.8.0, and the video I am following for using a remote and IR receiver was made using 2.? so I need to learn how to use the new version and write my sketches for that.
One last word on this topic, I think. I just got an "Arduino" remote to go with this setup and it helps a lot using it with the new version, 3.8.0, of the IRremote library. I am learning the differences in the code and how to write it. This is a lot of fun.