IRremoteESP8266 VS hyelicht

Not built, but designed a widget with a rest api on a wifi endpoint on one side and an IR led on the other to automate my dumb a/c unit. There was already a library to emulate the exact IR remote control,

https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266/tree/master/...

I am planning to do this soon(TM).

Probably starting with ESPHome to control my heat pumps over IR.

The remote works but I forget to turn it off when not in one of the rooms, and it can't do smarts like keeping temperatures in desired bounds.

An ESP32 running ESPHome with high power IR LED, a presence sensor, temperature sensor, and some pre-built library to control heat pumps[1]. it looks like it should be fairly simple to implement with Home assistant.

Now if I could only disable the beep from the heat pumps receiving commands.

I would like to do smarter lighting, but the lack of decent smart light switches that support local control and are also licenced for use in AU are a blocker there.

[1] https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266/wiki#ir-send...

ThermTerm solves all the problems I've had with these physical controls, while integrating the heat pumps into Home Assistant via MQTT. Additional sensors pipe temperature, humidity and light data, for statistics and automation. Out of the box, ThermTerm supports Mitsubishi's infrared protocol, since that's the system I have. Thanks to integration with IRRemoteESP8266, you can make ThermTerm work with your own heat pumps by writing a few lines of adaptor code.

This library has the IR codes defined for tons of heat pumps. The only thing about node red is that it uses Java to build the UI on the webserver. If your already familiar with Java then no big deal, but it's just one more syntax to learn lol.

I used this library with a D1 mini. I then use this to put in my dashboard There are some examples one is a receiver code that you can get your codes, they also have a lot of ACs codes already. There is also an IRServer example that integrates with MQTT and has some stuff to put in your configuration.yaml so you can get it into HA easily I used this for 6 Samsung ACs, LG Dryer, some basic fans with IR. Samsung is the same each command is like all commands in one on, temp, etc. It has all this built in. I think if you have a IR receiver on your esp board and it will sometimes pick up the commands sent by the regular remote so if someone else uses the dumb remote it will update in HA. It's not perfect but it works pretty well. you can get all in one boards on ali express if you search iresp8255 they have transmitters and receivers.

I have tried https://github.com/Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote and https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266, both cause the same error.

First, try to remove the resistor(i was made an ir remote using the top circuit for ir sender). check the components, maybe one of them are dead. Second, check the gpio and config. Third, maybe the problem is the code. Maybe you should try the original IRRemoteESP8266 library first: You should checkout the original esp8266 ir remote library first: https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266 checkout my project: https://github.com/KD-MM2/MHI-AirCon-ESP8266/blob/main/Ver-1_Webserver_IRRemote/TurnOnMitsubishiHeavyAc.ino

I was able to finally read one of my remote codes that my other receiver couldn't with the flipper. I then used this library with a D1 mini.

My AC is fujitsu and I found library to control: https://github.com/crankyoldgit/IRremoteESP8266/blob/master/src/ir_Fujitsu.cpp

If it has a remote you can try to control it with an ESP32 with an extra infrared led. Check if it is supported by this library. Some coding would be needed.

My goals to release source and docs a la https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht got waylaid by the ultimate DIY project of having a baby in November, but I will try to get it done this year!

Qt supports this too:

https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/webgl.html

I've used this to let friends on IRC paint on my LED shelf (https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht), which has a Qt-based embedded GUI, over the internet. Cheap fun!

IKEA hacks, of course! https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht/

7. Add the sensor event and memory system described above

There's a few other tricks. To improve the audio capture, I take note of spatially where the hot word is detected (i.e. which mic in the array gets the best signal) and then capture the rest & perform the silence detection with a corresponding bias.

This is actually done in a distributed fashion over the network, so if two of the AI speakers hear the same command, only one of them will end up processing it.

They end up making mainly HTTP calls to APIs that already exist around my house. I have a second RasPi in my LED shelf (another old project, https://github.com/eikehein/hyelicht/) that doubles as a Philips Hue bridge with a zigbee dongle. That's what the DIY AI speakers interact with when making changes to the lighting.

I will say: Depending on the user command and the weather in the cloud, it's pretty slow. I've tried my best to optimize the client side for perceived user latency, but there's no way around the GPT-4 API just being pretty slow. And 3.5-turbo just doesn't cut it for what I'm trying to do.

I'd like to get all of this of the cloud entirely. I predict the next generation of my home NAS will have a GPU in it and try to run things like fine-tuned llama2 for the home.