Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

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Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

November 12, 2010, 11:57:18 pm

Hello everybody

Infrared toy is great!!!

Here is my question if someone can help me to figure it out:
I have seen there are some UART connectors on Infrared toy device, and is it possible replace the USB connector for a bleutooth module via UART to sending / receiveing all data via bluetooth?

thanks for your response.

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #1 – November 13, 2010, 12:39:07 am

The firmware does not currently support control via UART, but since it is open source you are free to add the feature.

Such a setup would require external power, too.

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #2 – November 13, 2010, 01:10:55 am

rsdio: Thanks for you quick replay, I have just found some posts about using URAT and setup an external power.

Is there any plan to support the control via UART in the future on IRToy?

thanks

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #3 – November 13, 2010, 07:53:00 am

I don't have any plans currently to support control through the UART, it only used for usb->serial in the current version.

It might be possible to make a minimum firmware that just supports one mode through the UART (IR sample mode), would that be helpful?

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #4 – November 13, 2010, 03:58:20 pm

That's an interesting idea, a wireless remote IR sender or receiver using XBee or Bluetooth. I think it would only need sample mode.

(I have a hardwired IR repeater system so i don't actually need it, but the idea is cooler and more flexible than buying those X-10 IR repeater pyramids)

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #5 – November 13, 2010, 08:37:50 pm

hello, thanks all

yes, a wireless remote IR is exacte what I want to say, I think it is very interesting to communicate via UART, you can control you BTIR Toy via any other bt device.

hey ian: can you tell me more about supporting one mode via UART (tx/rx IR sample mode)?

thanks again

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #6 – November 14, 2010, 09:18:52 am

The USB part makes the code kind of wierd, but it should be "easy" enough to strip out one of the modes and make a serial UART version. The issue is going to be the buffer. It will need to pull bytes from the serial port, probably on a low-priority interrupt, and move them somewhere to store for transmitting. If it was just a receiver, it wouldn't have this issues and could just spit out bytes as it needed (maybe...).

Re: Bluetooth Infrared Toy. Possible?

Reply #7 – November 15, 2010, 11:56:33 pm

ian: Thank you very much.