Infrared Remote Control

Have you ever needed a cheap way to activate something from across the room? Infrared remotes are still the cheapest way to wirelessly control a device. We chose this remote because it’s small, very simple, and low-cost.

With this cheap infrared controller, you can easily make remote control projects such as the Arduino IR Remote receiver thanks to the open-hardware community, there are also some IR libraries such the joshuajnoble IR library for you to make everything in your house to be remote-control. This remote control offer 21 buttons, we suggest you use this remote control with the IR receiver.

Note: The unit does not come with a coin cell battery.

Features

Dimension: 84mmx39mm
Buttons: 21
Distance: ~ 8m
Battery: 3V Button Cell (CR2025)

Sample Code HERE

Example Code

/*
  SparkFun Electronics 2010
  Playing with IR remote control
  
  IR Receiver TSOP382: Supply voltage of 2.5V to 5.5V
  With the curved front facing you, pin 1 is on the left.
  Attach
    Pin 1: To pin 2 on Arduino
    Pin 2: GND
    Pin 3: 5V
  
  This is based on pmalmsten's code found on the Arduino forum from 2007:
  http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1176098434/0

  This code works with super cheapo remotes. 

   If you want to look at the individual timing
  of the bits, use this code:
  http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Code/InfraredReceivers
  
  This code clips a lot of the incoming IR blips, 

   but what is left is identifiable as key codes.

*/

int irPin = 2; //Sensor pin 1 wired to Arduino's pin 2
int statLED = 13; //Toggle the status LED every time Power is pressed
int start_bit = 2200; //Start bit threshold (Microseconds)
int bin_1 = 1000; //Binary 1 threshold (Microseconds)
int bin_0 = 400; //Binary 0 threshold (Microseconds)

void setup() {
  pinMode(statLED, OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(statLED, LOW);

  pinMode(irPin, INPUT);

  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("Waiting: ");
}

void loop() {
  int key = getIRKey();		    //Fetch the key
  
  if(key != 0) //Ignore keys that are zero
  {
    Serial.print("Key Recieved: ");
    switch(key)
    {
      case 144: Serial.print("CH Up"); break;
      case 145: Serial.print("CH Down"); break;
      case 146: Serial.print("VOL Right"); break;
      case 147: Serial.print("VOL Left"); break;
      case 148: Serial.print("Mute"); break;
      case 165: Serial.print("AV/TV"); break;
      case 149: 
        Serial.print("Power");
        if(digitalRead(statLED) != 1) 

//This toggles the statLED every time power button is hit

          digitalWrite(statLED, HIGH);
        else
          digitalWrite(statLED, LOW);
        break;

      default: Serial.print(key);
    }

    Serial.println();
  }
}

int getIRKey() {
  int data[12];
  int i;

  while(pulseIn(irPin, LOW) < start_bit); //Wait for a start bit
  
  for(i = 0 ; i  bin_0) //is it a 0?
      data[i] = 0;
    else
      return -1; //Flag the data as invalid; 

                     // I don't know what it is! Return -1 on invalid data
  }

  int result = 0;
  for(i = 0 ; i < 11 ; i++) //Convert data bits to integer
    if(data[i] == 1) result |= (1<