[Solved] IR-Library, how to send other codes than RC5/6 etc ?

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Hi to every one. This is a quiestion about the Irlibary found here: GitHub - Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote: Infrared remote library for Arduino: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols.

I have a project that is a programable universal remote control, it basicaly recieves a code, stores it, and send it later. It's working OK but not with all the TV's I've tried.

I've been used this library for a while but now I noticed that they have added more protocols, in the Example: "IRrecvDumpV2" it says:

void  encoding (decode_results *results)
{
  switch (results->decode_type) {
    default:
    case UNKNOWN:      Serial.print("UNKNOWN");       break ;
    case NEC:          Serial.print("NEC");           break ;
    case SONY:         Serial.print("SONY");          break ;
    case RC5:          Serial.print("RC5");           break ;
    case RC6:          Serial.print("RC6");           break ;
    case DISH:         Serial.print("DISH");          break ;
    case SHARP:        Serial.print("SHARP");         break ;
    case JVC:          Serial.print("JVC");           break ;
    case SANYO:        Serial.print("SANYO");         break ;
    case MITSUBISHI:   Serial.print("MITSUBISHI");    break ;
    case SAMSUNG:      Serial.print("SAMSUNG");       break ;
    case LG:           Serial.print("LG");            break ;
    case WHYNTER:      Serial.print("WHYNTER");       break ;
    case AIWA_RC_T501: Serial.print("AIWA_RC_T501");  break ;
    case PANASONIC:    Serial.print("PANASONIC");     break ;
    case DENON:        Serial.print("Denon");         break ;
  }
}

But I can't find the way to Send those codes... In the examples I only see:

irsend.sendRC6(codeValue, codeLen);
irsend.sendRC5(codeValue, codeLen);
irsend.sendSony(codeValue, codeLen);
irsend.sendNEC(codeValue, codeLen);
or irsend.sendRaw(rawCodes, codeLen, 38); if codetype==UNKNOWN

How could I do this? Is there a method to send the new codetypes??

Thank you very much

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There are configuration defines in IRremote.h that enable/disable single protocol sends/receives.

A look at the keywords.txt file reveals

sendNEC	
sendSony
sendSanyo
sendMitsubishi
sendRaw	
sendRC5	
sendRC6	
sendDISH 
sendSharp
sendSharpRaw 
sendPanasonic 
sendJVC
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Hi Whandall, thanks for your answer. I've checked what you said and I see that all the protocols are enabled in the IrRemote.h, but when I write the keywords like sendPanasonic in my sketch they doesn't appear colored like "sendNEC" and I have imported the library. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

Whandall:
There are configuration defines in IRremote.h that enable/disable single protocol sends/receives.

A look at the keywords.txt file reveals

sendNEC

sendSony
sendSanyo
sendMitsubishi
sendRaw
sendRC5
sendRC6
sendDISH
sendSharp
sendSharpRaw
sendPanasonic
sendJVC

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As long as the code compiles, the color does not really matter, does it?

Sometimes the coloring seems to fail, I've seen that myself before.

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You 're right! the code compiles with no errors. Now I need to play a little with the code :smiley:

Thnks for your help!

Whandall:
As long as the code compiles, the color does not really matter, does it?

Sometimes the coloring seems to fail, I've seen that myself before.

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In the keywords.txt file the names and the KEYWORDx stuff
have to be seperated by a tab to work,
the IR-Library uses - at least for one entry - a space.

You can change that, but remeber to restart the ide to see the effect.

keywords.txt: no tabs = no highlight

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Whandall:
In the keywords.txt file the names and the KEYWORDx stuff
have to be seperated by a tab to work,
the IR-Library uses - at least for one entry - a space.

You can change that, but remeber to restart the ide to see the effect.

keywords.txt: no tabs = no highlight

Excellent, I made the corrections using TAB and all looks beautiful now, Thanks!

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