I find posts like this inspirational. The explanation makes me feel like I could have done this despite lacking a lot of knowledge about the hardware. Thanks for sharing!
Hijacking infrared to make a dumb device smart
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#12Good post. Honestly though, I’m more interested in making smart devices dumb. Rip out their Wi-Fi hardware etc.
I find it easier to start with a dumb device. However as that increasingly looks not so possible for TVs, I'd love to see somebody document the process for what you propose.
you can still find some dumb displays if you search for "monitors" rather than "tvs".
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#13There are many bars available which have remote control learning.... e.g Yamaha YAS-306. Its just 2-3 mins job and you dont have to do these hacks. I have one from early 2000s which works perfect.y
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#14Really nice write up!
I've done something very similar with infrared controlled Hexbug battle bot toys.
It was a pretty interesting exercise but in the end cutting a few traces and sending commands directly from a piggyback micro-controller to the motor drivers was much more responsive (and allowed for differential steering and braking).
This article is sick because now I feel like the approach wasn't a complete waste of time. Thanks!
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#15I've had thoughts of a project for making my TV smart but never got started on it. I think developing a ML vision model for detecting commercials during sporting events or detecting YouTube ads and when the skip ads button appears would be a fun and not too complicated project. But connecting it to hardware with an infrared remote seemed significantly harder and this project confirms my worry. It might still be possi…
There's already tooling to do this, back when MythTV in 2005ish (iirc).
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#16That's actually really cool. I have a polk soundbar, which already does have a IR remote, but it doesn't actually do anything...
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#17Good post. Honestly though, I’m more interested in making smart devices dumb. Rip out their Wi-Fi hardware etc.
For the most part, don’t connect to Wi-Fi and use hdmi in. If you’re one of the lucky few with a tv that will wardrive your neighborhood looking for open networks, find the Wi-Fi chip and pull it off.
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#18So the remote was outputting something to the RGB LED every time you press a button ... why did they do that ?
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#19There are many bars available which have remote control learning.... e.g Yamaha YAS-306. Its just 2-3 mins job and you dont have to do these hacks. I have one from early 2000s which works perfect.y
This article is about replacing the IR remote control with an HTTP interface.
Are there any bars available on the market that can learn how to pick up such wireless transmissions and respond to their requests?
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#20There are many bars available which have remote control learning.... e.g Yamaha YAS-306. Its just 2-3 mins job and you dont have to do these hacks. I have one from early 2000s which works perfect.y
This article is about replacing the IR remote control with an HTTP interface. Are there any bars available on the market that can learn how to pick up such wireless transmissions and respond to their requests?
I think this was a comment on the fact that many stereo components were sold with remote receivers but no remotes.
I have memories a bunch of in the late 80s going to our electronics store so my brother could program our new programmable remote so we use it could use it with our cd player.. so sneaky we were.
This article is well more sophisticated.