My surround system remote is starting to show its age so I decided to make an IR receiver to save and salvage its codes for ...

[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...

Depressing a button on a modern Consumer IR, CIR, remote control causes a 940nm LED to blink. As the LED toggles a pulse stream of infrared light is generated. The pulse stream is a pattern which ...

Cut slots into a piece of paper to represent the IR remote control bitstream for putting your TV into standby. Insert it between your TV’s IR receiver and the flame from a lighter, and pull the slots ...

The main aim of this circuit is to design and demonstrate a simple 5 channel remote control system to drive five loads. The circuit works on the principle of IR communication. This article is aimed to ...

One small purchase added multiple devices to my smart home setup.

Infrared (IR) This is the king of control protocols in the living room and in fact just about every remote control made in recent history uses it to deliver controls from across a room. It's very ...