Questions tagged [infrared]

A beam of invisible light. Questions about be about coding with infrared controllers, and not device support

Infrared light is not visible to human eyes, but it's detectable by electronic sensors. It's often used in TV remotes or other short distance commands.

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How to disable MDM for infrared on LG S3

I'm trying to send an infraRed pattern from my application on an LG G3. Apparently, LG doesn't use the existing ConsumerIrManager so I've added LG's own QRemoteSDK to my project. But calling mIR.sendIRPattern((int)frequency,…
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Plotting an IR Spectrum with Gnuplot

I have an infrared spectrum for a compound of interest that I would like to plot, and I have a spectrum.dat file with all of the data points. It is of the form: # X Y 300 100 301 100 302 99 303 70 ... 3999 …
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Send IR values using infrared emitter led on Arduino

i have Arduino Mega and an IR Emitting LED and i want to send data "Hex Data" that i choose using this LED and i have tried the IRRemote Library and i have successfully used the IRrecv class, but when using IRsend i didn't get any signal and have…
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Using the Kinect SDK, how do I "record" infrared signals?

Hi and thanks for looking! Background You know how some universal remote controls can "record" the infrared signals from an OEM remote? I would like to do the same using the Kinect. After doing so, I am hoping to use a series of tones from the…
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Programming for the Apple infared remote controls

How do I get started with programming for the Apple infared remote control? To start with, I only intend to support one control, and one type of receiver, that on the current unibody MacBooks. What I mean by programming, is, how do I get started…
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How to wake esp8266 from deep sleep without continuous resets

I'm building an IR to wifi bridge using an esp8266. Basically I'm building an IR receiver connected to an esp8266 inside an IR remote control, to forward received IR Remote keypresses over wifi to a server. I'm using a Wemos D1 Mini. I already have…
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HTC ONE M8 IR Blaster after Lollipop Update not working

I need to use the infrared transmitter on an HTC One device. Before the lolipop update I could do this no problem, but now my code does not work. ConsumerIrManager mCIR = (ConsumerIrManager)getSystemService(Context.CONSUMER_IR_SERVICE); …
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ConsumerIrManager not working on HTC m8 lollipop

before the official lollipop update ConsumerIrManager was working fine with the HTC m8 (And so did the official HTC IR samples from htcdev) - After update it doesnt work anymore ConsumerIrManager gives Error-16 any idea what HTC may have changed?
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How to detect infrared light with OpenCV

I'm trying to use OpenCV to detect IR point using in-built camera. My camera can see infrared light. However I don't have a clue how to distinguish between visible light and IR light. After transformation to RGB we can't distinguish, but maybe…
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Arduino sketch does not work, the pins do not output anything

I have an Arduino Uno, and I'm trying to control my s107g rc helicopter with it. This code was available for download along with a few Youtube videos showing tests of it. So when I tried it with the IR led it didn't work. I tested it with normal…
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Detect a point of infrared light using an Android smartphone

I was wondering if anyone here has any pointers on how I might go about doing IR point recognition using an Android smartphone without modifying the hardware. It can be a (steady) single point. I know that the camera I have (galaxy nexus) can see…
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Detect key up with LIRCd

I'm using LIRCd to capture the keys I press on my remote control, with the proper configuration file. According to the documentation, I have to wait for the blocking function lirc_nextcode() to return and I get a nice line to decode, like…
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iOS and Infrared

Is it possible to communicate with an Infrared device (USB Infrared, TV, Mobile Phone, etc) using iOS (iPhone or iPad)? Well, i know it's possible, since there are many remote/universal remote applications in the AppStore. I basically want to know…
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capturing infrared pics on iPhone X front camera.

Definitely there is an infrared camera on iPhone X. I wonder, if it possible to capture photo/video from it using official instruments and swift. All apple official docs are only about using face id or measuring depth. And I can't find any info…
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How to access the IR (Infrared receiver) with Cocoa?

I need to access the raw data of the IR with cocoa, but not only the received from the Apple Remote. I saw this https://github.com/martinkahr/apple_remote_control but It's only for the Apple Remote.
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