B&O IR and Arduino

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Hi BeoWorlders,

 

if any of you is interested in a IR library for transmitting B&O codes with an Arduino board: I have just created one and uploaded it to GitHub. 🙂

Took me some time, especially because of the high modulation frequency and the B&O unique protocol. It is working quite well and seams to be the only one out there for this purpose at the moment...

 

Link:  

Thanks for your efforts !

You would say b&o IR and Apple, I think you would have more success and maybe some beoworlders would praise your name.🤒
Well done - good work - I hope some one will leverage it
Thanks for the praise. 🙂

@olvisab: what especially do you mean with that? Which combination of devices?
BeoMotion wrote:

Thanks for the praise.

@olvisab: what especially do you mean with that? Which combination of devices?

You are welcome Beomotion

I am not an apple fan, sorry.

Could these codes also be used for receiving B&O IR codes with an Arduino with en IR receiver?

Location: Denmark

@olvisab: thanks anyway. no problem 🙂

My library can only be used to send those codes. On GitHub there is an other one called "Beomote". This is a receiver for those Beo IR codes only.

For receiving the codes you have to either use the B&O IR eye or a TSOP7000.

Interesting, thanks for your effort!

Location: Arnhem, the Netherlands

You might be interested in these old threads as well:

/forum/general-discussion-and-questions/light-controller-with-arduino

/forum/imported-unmapped/beocontroller----my-latest-project

I'm actually working to build  B&O receiver to control some kind of system with a B&O remote

like a MP3 player connected by aux input to my beocenter etc...

it's like a B&O receiver with relay output.

Build an emitter is easy because we can program the microcontroller counter to make any frequencies we needs but the problem for the receiver is the 455KHz carrier frequency.
The one used by B&O is not a standard like the 36 or 38KHz used by IR/demodulators available on the market.

so i've build an IR receiver based on the 455KHz circuit from the beocenter diagram. (based on discrete components and 455KHz filter available at Farnell) and perhaps one based on the hard to find (obsolete) U2506 chip

(perharps another good way can be the use of the datalink interface from the beocenter but I must make some back engineering on the protocol...but i have storage scope)

If it works I let you know ;)

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