Making dumb LED strips smart.

• IRremoteESP8266

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  Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/

  Your starter for 10 on ESP8266 and IR is crankoldgit's library When you say transistors I hope you mean big beefy power transistors or mosfets? The current led strips use can be surprising, my 4.5m RGBW 12V strip draws 9A at full brightness and the similar length WS2812 would pull 15A at full brightness if my software didn't restrict it. Do run the numbers on power consumption in regard to your switching device. It's possible to do what you want with the existing receiver but as you've already found it's not that straightforward and requires a good magnifier and enough knowledge of electronics to decipher the circuitry before you could modify it, If you want a reasonable size prebuilt RGB controller the generic H801 boxes are cheap, readily available, ESP based and easy to flash your own code to. The other possibility is to IR enable your ESP8266 using a simple IR receiver like one of the TSOP series, the filters and amplifier are built in and as it's just a 5mm package it's easy to mount it where it's convenient. That way you can have the option of IR or WiFi control, I occasionally use an old IR remote as buttons are often more convenient than web pages for controlling things, in my case the remote talks to an IR to WiFi bridge I built using the library linked. above.

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