[chbot] ESP8266 - the book, by Neil Kolban

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Mon 10 Aug 2015 23:41:53 NZST +1200, Richard Jones wrote:

> I had been considering whether to make a wifi controlled infra red remote
> control using the ESP8266. With the (lack of) information to hand I'm not
> convinced that a GPIO and timer approach will be 100% reliable. I guess an
> ESP8266 and an AVR or PIC micro could remove the uncertainty.

Are there any serial-connected IR Tx ICs around?

But it may depend on what IR codes you need to generate. The ones for my
heat pump are about 150 bit long.

What is the kind of power consumption of these modules? Idle, and when
wifi is active?

Volker

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