An IR remote and receiver communicate with each other by transmitting and decoding a signal in the form of pulsed IR radiation. Infrared radiation IR , or infrared light, is a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from nm to 1 mm. Because humans can only see light with wavelengths of roughly violet to red nanometers, IR radiation is invisible to the human eye.
Since IR transmission is a wireless protocol based on a type of light, it requires a clear line of sight between the transmitter the remote and the receiver. Any object that has a temperature also radiates in the infrared spectrum. This phenomenon is also used by thermal cameras to detect heat.
All this ambient IR can interfere with the communication between the remote and the receiver. So how does the receiver only detect the IR signal coming from the remote? The answer is signal modulation. With signal modulation, the IR light source at the end of the remote is blinked with a specific frequency.
In consumer electronics, this carrier frequency is usually around 38 kHz. This specific frequency is used for commercial IR transmission because it is rare in nature and, therefore, it can be distinguished from the ambient IR.
The receiver is built in such a way that it only lets IR through that is coming in at 38 kHz. This is done using a bandpass filter and amplifier. The demodulated binary signal is then sent to the microcontroller the Arduino where it is decoded. In the image above, the vertical axis can be seen as the voltage going to the IR LED in the remote and the horizontal axis is time.
So when the LED is on, it is blinked modulated at 38 kHz and when it is off, no voltage is applied. The amount of time the signal stays high or low and the number of bits that are sent for each command is different for all of the IR protocols. In the NEC protocol, the total message usually consists of four 8-bit bytes. IR receivers, sometimes called IR sensors or IR detection diodes, usually come in two different form factors. You can either buy the diodes separately or mounted on a small breakout board.
The only difference is that the breakout board often contains a small LED that blinks every time the receiver detects a signal which can be handy for debugging.
It is very easy to hook up an IR receiver to the Arduino as you only need to connect three wires. The output wire can be connected to any of the digital pins of the Arduino. In this case, I connected it to pin 2 for the first examples below. The supply power pin is connected to 5 V and the middle ground pin to GND. If you are using a receiver that is mounted on a breakout board, check the labels on the PCB as the order of the pins can be different!
For this tutorial, we will be using the popular IRremote library written by Rafi Khan and others. This library is fairly easy to use and supports many different types of IR remotes. You can find the source code of this library here on GitHub. The Library Manager will open and update the list of installed libraries. Select the latest version and then click Install. NEC is probably the best known and most widespread IR transmission protocol as it is used by the vast majority of Japanese-manufactured consumer electronics.
However, many other types of protocols exist. It can be useful to known what type of IR protocol your remote is using if you want to work on more advanced projects. Or you might just be curious. Although the library is quite old, new protocols are still being added see the GitHub.
With the code below you can identify which protocol your remote is using. You can also try some other remotes that you have in your house and see if it can detect the protocol.
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