IOT: Photon based IR-emitter
Idea: Connect any device that uses a remote control to internet.
Why I would do that?
- To start cooling my apartment before I arrive. (as this example)
- To control the webcam over a hangouts call.
- To turn on and off the lights when I’m not in home.
- Because I can :)
First things first, what is a photon?: is like an Arduino but wifi-connected.
So, as it pretty close to the Arduino, it is simple to adapt sketches from one platform to the other. Actually there is an Arduino project to control stuff using IR (Arduino-IRremote) and a port of it to the Particle-core platform (Spark-Core-IRremote)
In this project I set up both:
- The Arduino is for recording the codes
- And the photon is the emitter
In the Arduino I uploaded the example IRrecvDumpV2 to record the codes that later I pass to the Photon.
After some trial and error I mapped all the buttons of this camera:
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