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srg74 / WLED-wemos-shield

Wemos D1 Mini (ESP8266) or Wemos ESP32 D1 Mini (ESP32) based universal shield for WLED firmware
https://github.com/srg74/WLED-wemos-shield
MIT License
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Troubleshooting IR Receiver #113

Closed drewmoseley closed 1 year ago

drewmoseley commented 1 year ago

Does anyone have troubleshooting tips for using an IR receiver with the shield? I have the preassembled unit bought off of Tindie, running an ESP32 board with the Mic add on board. I added a TSOP38238 from Amazon and configured the IR receiver on GPIO 18 with the 44-key RGB remote for this remote.

I have tried the latest beta of WLED (0.14.0-b3) as well as the sound-reactive version from install.wled.me.

Here is a photo showing the orientation of the receiver.

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In all cases, I get no signs of life at all using the remote. Does anyone have suggestions for next steps here? Anything obvious that I missed?

drewmoseley commented 1 year ago

And wouldn't you know it, I disconnect everything from power, reseat the board and restart everything and now it is apparently working. Not sure what I did differently but evidently the steps I outlined above are sufficient. Yeesh.

At least this info is now archived in github in case others try the same setup.

drewmoseley commented 1 year ago

Hmm. After playing a bit more it seems that perhaps the prebuilt sound-reactive version on install.wled.me simply does not have IR receiver support enabled. I guess maybe it's time for me to figure out how to build my own version. Hopefully I can get it all to fit.