infrared-tv-control

Control your tv (currently only Samsung TVs are supported) from a pc with an Arduino and an infrared led.

You can also turn on / off the seven LEDs from the pc. You can use the LEDs for different purposes.
For example when a download finishes or an emails arrives.

Demo videos

IR Control

Change LEDs

Setup

1. Connect the Arduino to the IR LED and the 7 LEDs as described in the layout files

   • pcb layout top
   • pcb layout bottom

2. Download the latest release source code zip: Latest release and unzip it

3. Do the following with the files from the release:

   1. Install the Arduino libraries from the release found here \arduino\libraries
      (How to install libraries (See section "Manual installation")
   2. Upload the Arduino sketch \arduino\arduino.ino to your Arduino

4. Download the latest release of the command line utlity zip (commandlinetool.zip): Latest release and unzip it

5. Open a command line window and have a look at the available commands:
   windows command line tool