The (illustrated) story so far

Picking up this project after it had been idle for a year meant going back to the drawing board and rediscovering many things. The last 2 months have seen a great deal of progress after the frustrations of my previous attempts. Here are some quick highlights.

April
Having identified the problems with receiving IR through the wrong sensor, there was much work to understand the IR codes being received. This is an early attempt at analysing them:

Early May
After many false starts, I eventually found some techniques to learn (most) IR codes that I encountered:

This was coupled with a new Linux program to capture the IR in the first place:


Mid May
Successful testing of the IR transmission:


The initial prototype iPhone app running (teathered):


Late May
In the past few days, I have developed a new test app which allows all the functions of my AV equipment to be controlled. Here is the advanced design system in use:

As I write this, it is about to go into testing: