433mhz ir extender

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Just saw this at my favorite Chinese junk yard; maybe its of interest to some. Can probably be found cheaper if you search around.
http://www.dx.com/p/ir-infrared-remote-control-wireless-extender-repeater-sharing-device-black-us-plug-418807

If i need to do IR stuff I’m hoping to do it off an esp8266 board instead as the 433 stuff isn’t too reliable imho.

@beikeland
there’s already an IR tutorial for the Pi here http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/235/howto-receive-transmit-infrared

but a wifi solution with an ESP8266 would be awesome

@leader21 said:

@beikeland
there’s already an IR tutorial for the Pi here http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/235/howto-receive-transmit-infrared

but a wifi solution with an ESP8266 would be awesome

I hop to start a ESP8266 project this winter, so I can turn my airco’s on and off from Pimatic over HTTP to a ESP, maybe this will be part of my current project for a ESP8266-pimatic module for temp/humidty/LED-Matrix

i’ve seen the IR stuff there, but maybe it’d be interesting for those who don’t want to go all out diy and just need an repeater.

It’d be interesting to see if we could pool all the esp effort in the same direction, towards websockets, perhaps? As far as i understand it would allow more real time like traffic and not the overhead of a http connection on each command. I’m currently a bit lacking in the know-how, but thats the long term plan at least.

@beikeland said:

i’ve seen the IR stuff there, but maybe it’d be interesting for those who don’t want to go all out diy and just need an repeater.

It’d be interesting to see if we could pool all the esp effort in the same direction, towards websockets, perhaps? As far as i understand it would allow more real time like traffic and not the overhead of a http connection on each command. I’m currently a bit lacking in the know-how, but thats the long term plan at least.

Same for me. I’m not a programmer but a simple scripter. I have adopted the Arduino ESP8266-pimatic code and gave it my own twist. Looks promising for now, but not finished yet.

For the IR part I’m thinking of adding a ‘sensor’ to the ESP8266 and let the user enter the fully IR code/blast on the web-gui. Pimatic can connect to the ESP8266 (when triggered by a rule) to tell to blast the IR code.

Some progress today.
Added IR support to my ESP8266 code. I didn’t want to hardcode the IR frame, so the code can accept the IR data through a GET request.

In pimatic I have 2 variables ACon and ACoff. When a button is pressed a curl command with the according variable is send to the ESP8266 webserver.

@koffienl

@sweetpi did also some work on this. Is yours based on this? Can you share your code and hardware setup?
see:
http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/121/p2p-rf-network-extend-the-range-of-pimatic-with-homeduino/9
and
https://github.com/pimatic/homeduino-esp8266-node

@Heizelmann said:

@koffienl

@sweetpi did also some work on this. Is yours based on this? Can you share your code and hardware setup?
see:
http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/121/p2p-rf-network-extend-the-range-of-pimatic-with-homeduino/9
and
https://github.com/pimatic/homeduino-esp8266-node

My code is based on this one : http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/329/updated-esp8266-wifi-sensor-temperature-and-humidity

Changed some stuff to fit my needs. Alle the system (wifi, pimatic info) and device settings (GPIO, enable/disable/variable ) are stored in EEPROM.
I will put my code on github, but it’s not finished yet.

http://zooi.oostindie.com/images/8481172_907642205993814_4.jpg
http://zooi.oostindie.com/images/151734761_907642162660485.jpg
http://zooi.oostindie.com/images/37320151220071650.jpg
http://zooi.oostindie.com/images/516capture.png
http://zooi.oostindie.com/images/704capture.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=629tGILFOWc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8R7LYl3IqI