IR Remote Control with a Raspberry Pi on WiFi!

Control IR devices (aircons, cheap LED strips, etc.) with a Raspberry Pi over WiFi with LIRC! Today we reverse engineer an RGB IR remote to add to the smarthome.

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro and Overview
01:59 - Hardware Setup
04:26 - Raspberry Pi Bootloader Setup
05:28 - Installing LIRCD
07:26 - Capturing the Scancodes
08:55 - Custom C Library Overview
10:00 - Mapping Arbitrary Colours with Euc Distance
11:36 - Arbitrary Transport with Function Pointers
13:10 - LIRC Remote Profiles
15:25 - Sending IR from the Pi!
16:26 - Example code for WiFi control
19:14 - Network Controlled Demo
20:50 - Smarthome Integrated Demo!

[nickl]

Wow the quality of this video is amazing 🤩

[akillith]

I think this is exactly what I need. I just had the idea that one of these could fire the IR remote i use for my camera, on a continuous timer (these options from retailers are $800+). Never attempted anything with a Pi so let's see how it goes!

[wvyv]

Cool, but now you have to have something like a RPi constantly around your lamp, which might be suboptimal, e.g. in the scenario where you want a connection over ethernet and need to be close to a switch or router. Would this be easier to fully program with an ESP-32? Or even cooler; inspect the internals of your lamp and make it natively controllable over the network. Fun stuff :)