Available as Arduino library "IRremote"
This library enables you to send and receive using infra-red signals on an Arduino.
Tutorials and more information will be made available on the official homepage.
Click on the LibraryManager badge above to see the instructions.
- IR does not work right when I use Neopixels (aka WS2811/WS2812/WS2812B) Whether you use the Adafruit Neopixel lib, or FastLED, interrupts get disabled on many lower end CPUs like the basic arduinos. In turn, this stops the IR interrupt handler from running when it needs to. There are some solutions to this on some processors, see this page from Marc MERLIN
- The default IR timer on AVR's is timer 2. Since the Arduino Tone library as well as analogWrite() for pin 3 and pin 11 requires timer 2, this functionality cannot be used simultaneously.
- You can use multiple IR receiver by just connecting the output pins of several IR receivers together. The IR receivers use an NPN transistor as output device with just a 30k resistor to VCC. This is almost "open collector" and allows connecting of several output pins.
Aiwa, BoseWave, Denon, Dish, JVC, Lego, LG, MagiQuest, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, RC5, RC6, Samsung, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, Whynter, (Pronto).
This library was never designed to handle long codes like the ones used by air conditioners. See Recording long Infrared Remote control signals with Arduino.
The main reason is, that it was designed to fit inside MCUs with relatively low levels of resources and was intended to work as a library together with other applications which also require some resources of the MCU to operate.
If you do not know which protocol your IR transmitter uses, you have several choices.
- Use the IRrecvDumpV2 example to dump out the IR timing. You can then reproduce/send this timing with the IRsendRawDemo example. For long codes like from air conditioners, you can change the length of the input buffer in IRremoteInt.h.
- If you have a bigger Arduino board at hand (> 100 kByte program space) you can try the IRremoteDecode example of the Arduino library DecodeIR.
- Use IrScrutinizer. It can automatically generate a send sketch for your protocol by exporting as "Arduino Raw". It supports IRremote, the old IRLib and Infrared4Arduino.
- Use the IRMP AllProtocol example and check the serial output if the protocol is one of the 40 supported protocols.
- Arduino Uno / Mega / Leonardo / Duemilanove / Diecimila / LilyPad / Mini / Fio / Nano etc.
- Teensy 1.0 / 1.0++ / 2.0 / 2++ / 3.0 / 3.1 / Teensy-LC; Credits: @PaulStoffregen (Teensy Team)
- Sanguino
- ATmega8, 48, 88, 168, 328
- ATmega8535, 16, 32, 164, 324, 644, 1284,
- ATmega64, 128
- ATmega4809 (Nano every)
- ATtiny84, 85
- SAMD21 (receive only)
- ESP32
- ESP8266 is supported in a fork based on an old codebase that isn't as recent, but it works reasonably well given that perfectly timed sub millisecond interrupts are different on that chip. See https://github.com/markszabo/IRremoteESP8266
- Sparkfun Pro Micro
We are open to suggestions for adding support to new boards, however we highly recommend you contact your supplier first and ask them to provide support from their side.
The timer and the pin usage can be adjusted in IRremoteBoardDefs.h
| Board/CPU | IR-Receive Pin | Timers |
|---|---|---|
| ATtiny84 | 6 | 1 |
| ATtiny85 | 1 | TINY0 |
| ATmega8 | 9 | 1 |
| ATmega48, ATmega88, ATmega168, ATmega328 | 3, 9 | 1, 2 |
| ATmega1284 | 13, 14, 6 | 1, 2, 3 |
| ATmega164, ATmega324, ATmega644 | 13, 14 | 1, 2 |
| ATmega8535 ATmega16, ATmega32 | 13 | 1 |
| ATmega64, ATmega128, ATmega1281, ATmega2561 | 13 | 1 |
| ATmega8515, ATmega162 | 13 | 1 |
| ATmega1280, ATmega2560 | 5, 6, 9, 11, 46 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| ATmega4809 | 5, 6, 9, 11, 46 | TCB0 |
| Leonardo (Atmega32u4) | 5, 9, 13 | 1, 3, 4_HS |
| ESP32 | 4, all pins | 1 |
| Sparkfun Pro Micro | 5, 9, 13 | 1, 3, 4_HS |
| Teensy 1.0 | 17 | 1 |
| Teensy 2.0 | 9, 10, 14 | 1, 3, 4_HS |
| Teensy++ 1.0 / 2.0 | 1, 16, 25 | 1, 2, 3 |
| Teensy 3.0 / 3.1 | 5 | CMT |
| Teensy-LC | 16 | TPM1 |
- TODO (Check examples for now)
Please see changelog.md.
This project documents the library API using Doxygen. It is planned to make generated and up-to-date API documentation available online.
To generate the API documentation,
Doxygen, as well as Graphviz should be installed.
(Note that on Windows, it may be necessary to add the Graphviz binary directory
(something like C:\Program Files\Graphviz2.38\bin)
to the PATH variable manually.)
With Doxygen and Graphviz installed, issue the command
doxygen from the command line in the main project directory, which will
generate the API documentation in HTML format.
The just generated api-doc/index.html can now be opened in a browser.
If you want to contribute to this project:
- Report bugs and errors
- Ask for enhancements
- Create issues and pull requests
- Tell other people about this library
- Contribute new protocols
Check here for some guidelines.
Email: zetoslab@gmail.com Please only email me if it is more appropriate than creating an Issue / PR. I will not respond to requests for adding support for particular boards, unless of course you are the creator of the board and would like to cooperate on the project. I will also ignore any emails asking me to tell you how to implement your ideas. However, if you have a private inquiry that you would only apply to you and you would prefer it to be via email, by all means.
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