Home Automation IR Blaster
Abstract
Home automation is something big that we will be seeing in the near future. Many devices that we use in our homes are controlled by infrared signals. Current high end phones have built in Infrared blasters that can be used to control these devices in our homes. The goal of this project is to make this functionality available to users who have mid-to-low cost phones with only a small investment. To accomplish this we installed LIRC, a software library that can manipulate infrared signals, on a Raspberry pi, a low end computer. However, LIRC does not have a very user friendly interface. We developed android and web interfaces for LIRC to allow novice users to take advantage of this technology. One difficulty we faced was designing software such that the android and web interfaces can be used interchangeably.
Home Automation IR Blaster
Home automation is something big that we will be seeing in the near future. Many devices that we use in our homes are controlled by infrared signals. Current high end phones have built in Infrared blasters that can be used to control these devices in our homes. The goal of this project is to make this functionality available to users who have mid-to-low cost phones with only a small investment. To accomplish this we installed LIRC, a software library that can manipulate infrared signals, on a Raspberry pi, a low end computer. However, LIRC does not have a very user friendly interface. We developed android and web interfaces for LIRC to allow novice users to take advantage of this technology. One difficulty we faced was designing software such that the android and web interfaces can be used interchangeably.