Hi all, I’m tangling with a project that requires the spark to act as a receiver for an IR signal. I’ve looked at some of the previous post about it in here but so far i’ve been unsuccessful with finding something that works. Last post about the spark acting as a IR receiver was from sep. 14. …

There have been more threads about IR and the most recent posts date to February 2015 Have alook at [image] IR transmitter & recorder Social Project Share Hey, I’ve been thin…

Thank you ScruffR but it doesn’t seem to get me any further with my problem… Does anybody else have a direction i can take a look at?

@snwiii , when you say IR receiver, do you mean so the Core can be controlled with an IR remote? Do you have an Arduino version I could port? :smile:

I haven’t made any progress. In the meantime, my I’m designing my project to run with two microcontroller- one of them a Core (soon to be a Photon) and the other an Atmega328 (the brains of the Arduino Uno). The Atmega328 has multiple IR receiver libraries and is set up to receive and interpret the …

@dome , great approach! You will love using the Photon when they arrive :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: For my own info, which IR libraries are you running on which processor?

@peekay123 , I use IRremote.h on the 328. It works really well in tandem with the ATTiny, although I’m hoping to have it running even better with a Photon. I’m building a custom PCB for everything (actually been through a few revisions already) and am planning on running the Atmega at 3v3 to lower th…

@dome , that looks fantastic! Couple of things you need to know about the Photon. First, the work is motion to fully exploit multitasking in FreeRTOS to split the system from the user threads. This will remove any “stalling” issues present in the old Core firmware. Second, the Photon’s STM32F205 …

@peekay123 , That’s awesome news! I was already excited for the photon, but now I really can’t wait. I guess I better not rush into the next version of my PCB!

@dome , excited… you haven’t heard the half of it yet! :stuck_out_tongue:

@peekay123 I think the IRremote library will require some porting to work on the Photon. I was looking at it and it seems to use some atmel interrupt routines for receiving and transmitting the IR signals.

Spark core as a IR receiver

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ScruffR March 2, 2015, 2:24pm 2

There have been more threads about IR and the most recent posts date to February 2015

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Spark core as a IR receiver

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