36KHz Phillips protocol
Based on the idea presented by Guy Carpenter on his site.
It decodes control codes produces by most of your household infrared remotes.
Tested on ATmega328P with avr-gcc toolchain. Designed for 16MHz crystal. Should work on the ATmega{4/8/16/32}8 (yes, that means Arduino too) family without modification.
Uses 16bit timer and an external interrupt.
I you use a different clock then adjust the timer prescaler and pulse lengths accordingly.
Should be trivial to adapt to other AVRs sporting a 16bit timer and an external interrupt.
The only additional component needed is an infrared receiver like TSOP2236 attached to PD2. Most of the standard receivers should work just fine.
Check out the comments in headers/source. Example in main.{c,h} included.
Yes, it does work flawlessly (at least for me). I built a project on it (rlamp) and never had any problems. The sensitivity achieved with TSOP2236 was astounding. I could point the remote anywhere, metres from the receiver and it would pick up the signal perfectly with every keypress.
I found an old e-mail that I sent to to Guy Carpenter concerning his very insightful article. He didn't update his website so I am attaching parts of it here in case it might be helpful:
In a highly-constrained 8bit environment the clever trick with transition table and bit shifting saves a lot of cpu time (which is even more important if code is executed in interrupts) so the snippet you kindly provided is very relevant. Unfortunately I found a minor problem with it:
- The two middle values in the transition table should be 0x91, 0x9b respectively
- I think that it would be helpful for future viewers if you included information about event "IDs" (0 - short space, 2 - short pulse, 4 - long space, 6 - long pulse)
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PS I found it crucial to continue decoding until "start1" is reached. Mid0 is reached naturally, however, the algorithm stops (emits last digit) at mid1 which prevents the last edge change from being processed. In certain situations this can lead to a permanent deadlock.
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