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When phones still had IR blasters, I got stuck for 3 weeks straight on a IR library that needed to imitate the sequences coming from a TV remote. Code was “done
by makeitdouble 5y ago
When phones still had IR blasters, I got stuck for 3 weeks straight on a IR library that needed to imitate the sequences coming from a TV remote. Code was “done” in 2 days, the rest was spent in front of a TV to have my sequences get recognized.
Literally went to the library to read books on IR and make sure I understood what the doc was saying. Asked around to find people who worked on these kind of sequencing. Went to a small repair shop and bribed the tech to give me hints on how remotes work.
It was fun in retrospect, maddening and incredibly taxing at the time.
- MonaroVXR 5y agoWhat would you do differently?
- makeitdouble 5y agoWith prior knowledge of how quirky it is, I'd sacrifice way more time finding an expert from the start. I don't think we did anything fundamentally wrong, short of underestimating the problem space. It's also not as if I was left in my corner for weeks, I got pretty good advices (like go finding more help and returning to basics). Getting info before the internet, before makers got into habits of published maintenance manuals etc. life was just way harder.