[chbot] ESP8266 - the book, by Neil Kolban

Charles Manning cdhmanning at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 23:47:57 BST 2015


Volker

I'm increasingly using cheap micros for "is there a chip that does xxxx"

There are now a wide range of Coretex M0 devices under $2 loaded up
with various peripherals.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 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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