Thread: [Announce] Pierogi - a universal infrared remote control app
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2012-09-29 , 13:05
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#757
Originally Posted by Cue View Post
Copenicus, do you have any experience building LIRC blasters?
Nope; I'm really more of a software guy than a hardware guy.

I was looking at building Petteri Aimonens circuit on a standalone GPIO device.

Then using listen/connect on lircd to send commands from Pierogi. This will mean I can send commands over Wifi instead of being limited to 3 meters from my TV and aiming.
It'd be pretty simple to drive such a device from either LIRC or Pierogi. From what I can see on that diagram, you're really just holding a line high or low to turn the LED on or off. (I should say that neither LIRC nor Pierogi get into the fine details of hardware control; the IR device driver simply asks for an array of timings.)

Of course, there's a lot more hardware required if you want the IR blaster to receive commands over WIFI...
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