IR Blaster (progress)

[sundberg84]

I also wants to buy 1-3 depending on price.

[Didi]

I want to buy one

[korttoma]

I am interested allso.

[RJ_Make]

I'm in for at LEAST 1, but most likely ... MORE... :stuck_out_tongue:

[mscott]

3 to 5 here

[BulldogLowell]

I'm in for a couple too...

[filipq]

Two for me please.

[DrJeff]

Mark me down for 1!

[rvendrame]

one for me!

[gloob]

I would also take 5

[jheacock]

I am interested in at least one, maybe two depending on area coverage.

[blacey]

Placed an order for the first prototype boards today... Sourcing from China to U.S. so it will take a while for them to arrive from the fab but I will keep everyone apprised of the progress. That said, here is a render of the protoboard (v0.5) with NRF24L01+ attached to provide a sense of the board's physical size/footprint (thanks to @tbowmo for the NRF24L01+ 3d-shape).

[Moshe Livne]

@blacey do you know of any reliable way to record and play very long code, like HVAC ones?

[Qu3Uk]

Mark me down for 1 as well.

[tbowmo]

@Moshe-Livne

@blacey made room for an external flash on board, which probably could be used to store IR codes.

The flash that he chose is a 64Kbyte (512kbit), so only the first half of the flash is actually used for OTA updates, which leave us 32Kb external flash storrage available for the user.

[scalz]

@blacey: very nice design. I think there will be mysensors production for your board as people are interested... And me too, I can't wait to see all sketches and usecases...
In future, it will be great as I feel there is a hardware design movement for Mysensors, very interesting.

[gigaguy]

If I am understanding this thread correctly. This would be capable of repeating the IR signal, correct? So, if I put one of these in every room. I can use my universal remote or something similar to change the channel on a tv in another room?

[hek]

@gigaguy

Yes that could be one possible use-case.

Normally (I would imagine) the blaster would pick up your remotes commands and send them to the controller. What you actually do with this information (on the controller side) is up to you. You might wanna send a command to the z-wave controlled curtains to open. Or turn on the lights in certain rooms.

Another usecase could be to create a scene (on the controller) that turns on the tv (or fake-fireplace!) at 7pm every evening.

I'm thinking of pausing the tv when someone calls (as I've got the ip-telephone integrated in my HA soulution)...

[kalle]

Yes there are many possibilies and I like the design of the board (looks great). We have create a similar device (only on a breadboard at the moment), which has also include RF433 receive and transmit function and we can controlled it by voice. Each IR code is stored in a txt file on a SD card (raw code). A bit hard for me to explain it here with words, but I can record a video how it works in real if anyone will see it in action.
It has only one disadvantage - you need two Nano or Mini on a PCB board.

[Moshe Livne]

@kalle its not that bad with minis costing few $ each....