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mlfunston / node-red-contrib-broadlink-control

Set of node-red nodes to manage the Broadlink home automation device suite
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Broadlink as an IR reciever? #15

Closed michaltaberski closed 4 years ago

michaltaberski commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I wonder if it's possible to setup Broadlink as an IR receiver. What I would like to do is to use my universal traditional IR remote, and use it to control light. I can already control light through node-red. More or less like this:

REGULAR IR REMOTE -> BROADLINK -> NODE RED -> LIGHT

Technically Broadlink has IR reciever because it can learn from other remotes, but can it be used permanently through node-red?

mlfunston commented 5 years ago

It can’t as it is currently set up in the node but I can see if it’s possible to create a new continuous receiver node to continually spit out the IR codes.

You would then need to process them and filter out the other signals it receives though as it will be listening to any IR signals.

I have a Logitech remote doing something similar but was going to look at using the broadlink instead.

I’ll look into it.

Mark Funston

On 30 May 2019, at 14:31, Michał Taberski notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi,

I wonder if it's possible to setup Broadlink as an IR receiver. What I would like to do is to use my universal traditional IR remote, and use it to control light. I can already control light through node-red. More or less like this:

REGULAR IR REMOTE -> BROADLINK -> NODE RED -> LIGHT Technically Broadlink has IR reciever because it can learn from other remotes, but can it be used permanently through node-red?

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michaltaberski commented 5 years ago

Thanks! Looking forward. I am pretty new to node-red but if I could support you anyhow please let me know.

mlfunston commented 4 years ago

I've done some testing on this. It seems that the Broadlink unit cannot be left open as a receiver all the time. When you ask it to receive data it will only keep the unit open to signals for 30 seconds and then time out and stop receiving. It would probably need a firmware change to stop this I think unless anyone has any other ideas.

I have set up a test node and can poll the unit continuously but as soon as it sees a signal it sends it and closes the connection. Then we need to poll it again and reopen to receive IR signals again. Not the best result and I'm not sure if it will cause issues with the unit if we keep doing this to it...

So it's probably not going to happen at this stage.