Universal remote help.

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#1

Okay I'm stuck beyond stuck. I've been using these sites:

http://www.rockabilly.net/infrared/IR-PWM.shtml General IR topic

http://home2.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ This Hex to Dec converter

http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/ These IR Pronto Codes

http://zovirl.com/2008/11/12/building-a-universal-remote-with-an-arduino/ And this as an example.

I'm trying to use this power code for a Samsung TV just to get me started. Pronto Code: http://www.remotecentral.com/cgi-bin/codes/samsung/tv_functions/

I've got this so far (the power code)

0000 raw code

006d 38 KHz

0000 006d 0022 0003 00a9 00a8 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 003f 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0040 0015 0015 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 003f 0015 0702 00a9 00a8 0015 0015 0015 0e6e

I'm stuck on what to do next. Any suggestions? Links?

Eventually I'm going to get a wifi adapter with an IR LED and basically make a universal remote controllable over wifi.

Thanks everyone.

-Dustin

#2

Have I got this right? You want your Arduino to “see” a command from an IR remote control, and then pass that on wirelessly?

Or do you want to press buttons on an Arduino, and have IR commands sent out to a TV, etc, in another room after a jump by wireless?

One Arduino? Or two? (One at the place where the human is, one where the device-controlled-by-IR is)?

For details of how to get Arduino to “see” incoming IR commands, see…

http://sheepdogguides.com/arduino/ar3ne1ir.htm

(Although that is couched in terms of the nuelectronics shield, the shield isn’t important to what is there.)

The same library as is used for the above also has routines for SENDING OUT messages by “winking” and IR LED… I just haven’t gone into those in the essay.

#3

I'll take a look, thanks. As for the details of this project this is what I'm going for. Android/iPod/iPad/anything-else-wifi-enabled will have all of the remotes on it in an app built for the device. The Arduino will have a wireless xbee or some other wifi enabled device and an IR LED. The, in my case Droid, has all of the remotes on it. You pick what device you want to control, the Droid sends the IR commands over wifi to the Arduino, and then controls the device. Hopefully that explains what I want to happen.

#4