[FR] Add other controls

[ildar]

Natural improvement is to add more remote "buttons". The one I miss most is TV/AV switch. Thanks!

[42SK]

IR-patterns that do other things than turning the TV off are probably an important feature that should be added soon. However, one should keep in mind that the main goal of TVKILL is not to become a fully featured IR-Remote with all the capabilities of a regular remote. TVKILL is intended to be a amusement tool that can either be used to play pranks on others (by turning off TVs) or to encourage responsible TV watching (TVKILL was mostly inspired by the TV-B-Gone-Remote). Any new "buttons" should therefore add a feature which might prove to be useful in this matter (e.g. a "mute" button). Requests for new controls ("buttons") that would help to enhance the above-mentioned purpose can from now on be made in this thread.

[dan2468]

+1 for mute. Maybe add a “learn” feature to record a new off pattern.

[42SK]

@dan2468 A feature that lets you record patterns is probably not possible, since Android devices usually aren't equipped with an IR receiver. We could add a feature that let's you enter IR codes manually, but users would have to get their custom patterns elsewhere, which wouldn't be very practical, since IR databases on the Internet are quite rare. Adding a mute button should be less complicated though ;-) .

[ildar]

I think LIRC project's database may fit. It is open as FOSS. JFYI

[42SK]

@ildar Thanks a lot for your suggestion! The LIRC database looks quite promising.

[a-raccoon]

Thanks a bunch! This is quite possibly the first (working) FOSS IR Blaster app out there, at least in my 3 years of digging. Much appreciated! I would love to see the project forked and expanded upon as suggested above, but this app is a gem as is.

As a thought, would it be possible to detect the impulses of a standard television remote from our device's camera, which CAN sense IR even through our lens's cheap IR filter, or are the patterns too rapid to decode?

[42SK]

@a-raccoon Yes, the patterns are probably to rapid to be identified with a normal camera, but it seems to be possible to record the IR patterns of almost any remote with an IR receiver and an Arduino (this was suggested in issue #7). We might be able to use this in order to decode the patterns which could then be added to TV KILL, assuming that we can find somebody who has experience with Arduino boards and IR codes.

[42SK]

Update:

A "mute" button was added in version 1.1 (0e5f28defc52665754928f8ba8c0bd92ade3fb46).

[nm17]

I think it's full remote not needed in app named TV KILL. Although its might be useful, it will ruin the main idea of app.