RC5 infrared remote

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Here's a project requiring minimal hardware to implement a basic RC5 IR remote: just an Arduino, battery and IR LED:

Here's a link to a zip file containing the code (rc5xmit.pde and irparams.h):

http://wikiputer.org/arduino/rc5xmit.zip

The code as it stands just has a demo program in the main loop to do some basic operations on a TV. It shows how the code is pretty straightforward to use:

brand(PHILIPSTV) ;
button(POWER,2) ;  // hello world
delay(15000) ;
button(ZERO,2) ;   // change channel to 03
delay(100) ;
button(THREE,2) ;
delay(100) ;
button(MUTE,2) ;   // mute the TV
delay(15000) ;
button(POWER,2) ;  // over and out

Of course, this works only with some TV models, and the code may have to be changed to accomodate other RC5 devices.

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reminds me of http://www.tvbgone.com (with more functions of course)! Thanks for sharing!

Regards,

Till

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reminds me of http://www.tvbgone.com (with more functions of course)! Thanks for sharing!

I'm just surprised nobody's built an Arduino based tvbgone. Doesn't ladyada have an open source one based on an 8-pin AVR?

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Very Cool. Im wondering if one can send signals to their XBOX360 like this unless that uses Radio Frequency.

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Very Cool. Im wondering if one can send signals to their XBOX360 like this unless that uses Radio Frequency.

I just did a little searching... I gather that the the XBOX360 IR remote uses RC6, the successor to RC5 (and Microsoft-recommended for Media Center). The old XBOXs used RC5.

Microsoft developed RC6 in conjunction with Philips. I can't find a whole lot of info on it.

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Yeah I was going to use the remote to send an IR signal to the Arduino on top of the xbox which sends a signal to the tranciever in the outlet which sends a signal through the houses existing wiring to the switch on the wall to dim it. X10 sells a universal remote (so I can even skip the whole arduino process), but im wondering if i can control my xbox 360 via that.

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Someone asked if I had a similar sketch for sending SIRCS (Sony) protocol. Here it is:

http://wikiputer.org/arduino/sircsxmit.zip

Joe

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rc5xmit is great work Joe, thanks!

is there anything that would stop it working on the lilypad? or put another way, has it been tested on an 8MHz cpu?

thanks

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I think it should work on the Lilypad just by changing the SYSCLOCK define in the header file from 16000000 to 8000000. Haven't actually tried it though (Lilypad on order). ;D

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I think it should work on the Lilypad just by changing the SYSCLOCK define in the header file from 16000000 to 8000000. Haven't actually tried it though (Lilypad on order). ;D

yes! this works perfectly! thanks again Joe.

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Hi jmknapp,

The links are dead. Can you please refresh them?

http://wikiputer.org/arduino/rc5xmit.zip
http://wikiputer.org/arduino/sircsxmit.zip

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My DSL (and thus server) are out of commission due to a truck taking out our phone line--should be back up by Friday.

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Still down :frowning: I will have to check back later to night. I don't know what I'd do if I lost my connection for a couple days heh.

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I'm not sure if this is the same sketch or not but here is a link to some code that might work. I have not toyed with it yet.

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mduca, i have a copy of rc5xmit.zip from back in May if that's any help.

get it here: http://fts.rca.ac.uk/download/?u=chris.hand&k=kiw9taEx

link will expire 10th October.

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Nice, [smiley=beer.gif] thanks!

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Hi,

Here is some info about RC6 at http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/ir/rc6.php

Changes: changed link address.

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Wow, this worked great. I have a Philips myself, and just connected a IR LED and uploaded the code and boom my TV started turning on and off :stuck_out_tongue:

Does anyone have any idea as to where to find information that can be used to add other other TV-sets to this? And how to add it all to the irparams file?

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Looks cool! I've been trying to interface with an Infoglobe (http://www.linux-hacker.net/InfoGlobe/) for a while with limited success. Hopefully I'll be able to find something in your code that helps me out!

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Can someone reupload the fonts??? :-/