ESP8266 Community Forum

- Tue May 12, 2015 6:58 am #17237 Hey all,

I have managed to port the arduino IR library by Ken Shirriff to esp8266 using the Sming framework. It can encode and decode. The sending uses bit-banging rather than PWM since I could not get it to work consistently. I have tested using a NEC remote and checked the codes using an Arduino with IRremote. I will be updating the documentation over the next few days.

https://github.com/sh4d0w12/esp8266_IRremote

- Tue May 12, 2015 8:02 pm #17276 This is awesome! I've been trying to find a workaround like this for days now. Right now I'm just using a separate arduino nano board to do the IR encoding/decoding and the ESP8266 board to communicate with my MQTT broker. This is really great! Thanks sh4d0w!

- Wed May 13, 2015 3:12 am #17293

This is awesome! I've been trying to find a workaround like this for days now. Right now I'm just using a separate arduino nano board to do the IR encoding/decoding and the ESP8266 board to communicate with my MQTT broker. This is really great! Thanks sh4d0w!

Pleasure. Yea, was in the same boat. Really wanted to be able to use the ESP8266 to encode and decode IR rather than requiring another microcontroller.

- Fri May 15, 2015 3:57 am #17443 This is positive news.

I can't wait to see more development in this area.