Support IR Remote Controls that use Toggle Bit

[KarlKiel]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Description

A lot of IR controls have implemented 2 sets of IR Codes and toggle between the those 2 sets at every press of a button. This functtionality is also called "Toggle Bit" and is also for example part of the official definition of the very commonly used RC-5 protocol. (e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC-5) The idea is to prevent that the same code is interpreted more than once from the end device. Unfortunately Remote2 (and Remote 1 also..) are not supporting Toggle Bit today - therefore a device that uses Toggle Bit will only interpret one press of a button and ignore all following presses of that same button before any button press of aother button has been interpreted. Here an example for such a toggle bit that is sent at two following presses (RC5, Page 7, Command 16:) Standard: 0000 0073 000B 0000 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0040 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 09B7 "Toggled": 0000 0073 000B 0000 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0040 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 09B7 Would be great to support the toggle bit behaviour to support a lot more devices with smooth control.

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[zehnm]

Toggle bits for RC-5 and RC-6 are in our backlog. Sometime after the internal IR blaster functionality and native IR-repeat is done.

We will start with learned codes, where it's easy to process the toggle bit, then check about the existing PRONTO codes.

[zehnm]

The initial rewrite of the RC5, RC5X and RC6 toggle-bit handling has just been released in the BETA group as a preview feature. It should be available as a public update soon (but still as preview-feature after more testing has been done).

[zehnm]

Status update: another BETA version has been released and we are getting close to a public release.

• New toggle logic is active by default and no longer a preview feature.
• RC-6 has been verified with an HP MCE remote & USB receiver
• Self learned RC-5, RC-5x, RC-6 and RC-MM 32bit codes are automatically toggled, no matter if the learned code has the toggle bit set or not.
• PRONTO codes can be toggled with a | devider: <CODE1> | <CODE2> Example with the codes given in this issue: 0000 0073 000B 0000 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0040 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 09B7 | 0000 0073 000B 0000 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0040 0040 0040 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 0020 09B7

[zehnm]

Fixed in 1.6.0