ruiqimao / qmkbuilder

Online GUI for QMK Firmware
http://kbfirmware.com
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Please add IR sensor connection to the keyboard. #76

Open korenevskiy opened 2 years ago

korenevskiy commented 2 years ago

Excuse me for writing here, but I didn't find the discussion section. Let's add an IR sensor connection to the keyboard. I've been thinking a lot about how to create an IR sensor USB remote control so that the device can work without software. Obviously, any IR sensor USB remote control needs to be programmed on the remote control buttons. This cannot be done without software. But there is only one device that will allow you to do this without software. This is a custom keyboard. Thanks to a custom keyboard, you can connect a remote control without software. Because the Custom keyboard already has keys whose values can be assigned to the IR remote control. And moreover, it will allow you to implement it only by updating the firmware. Since the connection of the IR sensor is typical in the controller.

Today, a custom keyboard is something like a kind of ordinary stamped keyboard, but only with improved characteristics. But by adding the ability to connect the IR remote control. It will allow you to consider a custom keyboard as a new type of device, with new features. In this quality, users who were interested in a custom keyboard but then buy a regular one there are ~10 times more of them, for such people, the special advantage of custom keyboards is cut off by the price. But using the IR remote control we will get:

PS I am sure that half of the users are watching a movie on a PC. It would be great to be able to turn off the PC with the remote control before going to bed.