Hack a MiniPOV3 for IR capture

[opossum]

It will only work if the carrier frequency is 30 to 500 kHz and each burst is at least 200 uS duration.

It will not work with IrDA or similar systems.

[caitsith2]

Building my own minipov + IR capture device. (Ordered a custom PCB for it, through Batchpcb.com.)



Gerber + schematic/board files at http://www.BANNED.net/projects/minipov3/minipov3.zip


(True that I could have ordered a PCB or kit through adafruit, but I had other projects on the go as well, with PCB designs, and I figured I would just integrate your mods into a PCB, and give it a trial run. Also saved me the $6.50 digikey handling fee for orders less than $32.50, and the fact that the batchpcb $10 processing fee only applies per order, not per board. I don't mind waiting a bit longer for the boards.)

[opossum]

Very nice.

A few tips...

If you use a QSE157, the supply voltage must be at least 4.0 Volts (3 x 1.5V battery, USB, etc...). The 3V Zeners must be replaced with 5.1V to allow operation at this higher voltage.

If you use an IR demod module, a bypass cap is required. They don't work well without one - sometimes they don't work at all. A 2.2 uF tantalum is usually enough, but sometimes a 100 nF ceramic in parallel with a 22 uF electrolytic is needed.

There really should be a 100 nF ceramic bypass cap no matter what the configuration. That's SOP for anything digital.

[caitsith2]

That bypass cap should be easy enough to mount, where the POV sensor was supposed to go. As it stands, I plan on using an IR LED in this build, to complement my pic IRwidget, (building that one with QSE157).

(I should be receiving my IRwidget PCB board shortly, (hopefully)).

[CJM]

Can you Paint an Layout-Plan please?


Edit:

I can Use this also?


http://www.compendiumarcana.com/irwidget/

[caitsith2]

My minipov3 pcb arrived, and is assembled. I did not mount any of the IR pickup devices permanently, but rather, put in female header sockets, and chose to plug in the device desired, as I need them. I am currently running as minipov3, but am running off the ceramic oscillator, rather than the internal one, mainly, so I don't have to burn the fuses when I decide to use IR capture mode.

[dectomax]

Hi,

I've been wanting to capture some I.R. Codes for my Tv B Gone. I oredered 10 Tiny85's because of a price break in the order, to build the Tv B Gone. It works great.

That leaves me with 9 lying around. I'm not very experienced with AVR's and was wondering if it would it be easy to port the I.R capture source code to a Tiny85 as that's all I have at the moment.

Also, what would the schematic be as I haven't built a MiniPOV to hack. I'm thinking about building this from the ground up.

Thanks.

[magician13134]

Can we see a picture of your final? I'd like to see the quality of a batchpcb board, I'm thinking of ordering some from them.

An IR capture device shouldn't be too hard to write for the 85. I, too, would like to see an 'IR Widget'-style device based on the 85.

[jasonx]

I, too, would like to see an 'IR Widget'-style device based on the 85.

Me to I have a few of these spare

[Probedude]

Ditto here.

[caitsith2]

I'd like to see the quality of a batchpcb board, I'm thinking of ordering some from them.

Don't have a picture of the minipov3 at the moment, I do however have pictures of 2 other boards that I had made at batchpcb, at the same time as the minipov3 built.

For PPP Token



For http://ledkit.biz Clock PCB



Note, I had originally ordered 1x minipov3 modified PCB board, 2x PPP token boards, and 3x LEDkit.biz clock boards. I ended up with 1x minipov3, 3x PPP token boards, and 8x LEDkit.biz clock boards. (Must have been filler for their panel, to get the order out on time.)

[dectomax]

Well,

I've built my I.R. widget using a PIC 12F509 I had lying about. It seems to work fine. I now want to add some new codes to my TV B Gone so that I can switch off my T.V, Satellite Box and AV amp all at once.

My problem is adding these codes. I.R. scope throws out a file called tvbg.c which looks like this.

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const struct powercode xCode PROGMEM = {
	freq_to_timerval(35851),
	{
		{ 266,	89 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 44,	88 },
		{ 89,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 91,	44 },
		{ 43,	89 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 88,	44 },
		{ 46,	89 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	12319 },
		{ 271,	89 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 88,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 88,	45 },
		{ 44,	88 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 88,	45 },
		{ 45,	89 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	12319 },
		{ 268,	89 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	89 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 91,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 90,	43 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 90,	43 },
		{ 47,	88 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	12319 },
		{ 270,	88 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 44,	88 },
		{ 46,	89 },
		{ 88,	45 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 89,	43 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 89,	46 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	12318 },
		{ 269,	89 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 47,	43 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 45,	89 },
		{ 90,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 46,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 45,	45 },
		{ 88,	44 },
		{ 46,	89 },
		{ 44,	43 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	44 },
		{ 43,	45 },
		{ 88,	46 },
		{ 44,	89 },
		{ 44,	46 },
		{ 44,	0 }
	}
};

I'm using the 'TV B Gone 1.1 Simple' code. I've tried adding the tvbg.c file to the project and rebuilding in AVR Studio but I get an error

tvbg.c:1: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'PROGMEM'

I've looked at the Worldcode.c file and the structure seems different. Are these codes compressed ones?

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const struct IrCode code_na000Code PROGMEM = {
	freq_to_timerval(38461),
	code_na000Times,
	{
		0x48,
		0x41,
		0x04,
		0x82,
		0x49,
		0x90,
		0x82,
		0x09,
		0x04,
		0x94,
	}
};

I've looked at an earilier 'codes' file and it is the same as the output from I.R. scope.

Anybody got any idea how to get the output from I.R. Scope and add it to the either the latest 1.1 version EU_codes or World codes?

Thanks.

[CJM]

Hello,

I've finally got me a mini Arduino increase and would like this circuit (LED) in this building.

Can someone please make a plan and the code?

And advise a German language book (Layouts, Arduino, Coding, ...) ?

[hypersonic500]

hey oPossum is there any way to use the capture program with an Arduino? if so please show how. :)