You could possibly start with https://lirc.org/ - this is the lowest level IR control. Source: 11 months ago
This site will be helpful too: Linux Inferred Remote Control. Source: about 1 year ago
You need to buy a USB adapter, and possibly fiddle with drivers. Start here: https://lirc.org/. Source: about 1 year ago
Based on my 2 minutes of searching, it looks like this is a configuration database for the Linux Infrared Remote Control project, or LIRC, which (according to their website) lets you both decode and send IR commands to emulate a remote control. I think the idea is if you had a Raspberry Pi or some kind of GPIO interface on a Linux box, you could potentially have a truly universal remote (or at least, one that can... Source: over 1 year ago
Interesting. I control all sorts of things around my house using a raspberry pi with thr Linux version of this capability, LIRC. Heat pump, stereo, TV. Might be more fun to try on arduino. I wonder if it works with esp8266. https://lirc.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Back in the day I used LIRC for stuff like that. Their device database is huge. Source: over 2 years ago
Do you know an article comparing LIRC to other products?
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