I managed to find some time on Monday to look through the IR dongle utilities code. To my surprise, using the device seems to be reasonably straightforward (a first on this project). There are a number of utility functions which can be reused to drive the basic protocol which just leaves the higher, packet, level to drive.
I was lucky enough to grab some time yesterday and quickly put together a program using the utility code to open a connection and read some data from the dongle. It worked! Knowing this, I can now work on some basic learning functionality so I can program up the remote controls I have. My plan is to keep this fairly simple for now and refine it later. The focus is to be able to issue individual commands to multiple individual devices. I already have a demonstration of the networking ability, so that can be put to one side for now.
Right now it feels like the project once again has a future, but this will be tempered by the reliability I manage to get from the learned codes. I fear there may still be a way to go yet.
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