We received a V2 USB IR Toy last week from Dangerous Prototypes via Seedstudio.
(See early access note for backers below)
After some initial teething problems we set about playing with this new device. Then we went about trying to integrate it into AnalysIR. We found that operating the IR Toy in ‘Sampling Mode’ worked best for our needs. There are several other modes available which are described on the website below. Continue reading AnalysIR integrated support for USB IR Toy
Following on from our previous blog post about SKY+ RC6 IR codes, we have now completed the project and are about to ship to its new owner – a friend of ours.
We purchased a Sega megadrive Arcade style games console which was BNIB for €25 ($35) and disabled all of the built-in gaming functionality. We then wired up each of the 12 available switches (Joystick & Arcade style buttons) to the Arduino Nano which was placed onto an Arduino prototyping shield and mounted to the enclosure using ‘lots’ of hot glue. Note some of these consoles come with an additional 2 buttons, which can bring the total to 14. In addition, the joystick has 8 positions in total of which we used only 4 as it would be too difficult for the user to manage all eight. Continue reading Custom TV remote control using Arcade style console
Hello Backers,
We have been busy over the last few weeks updating AnalysIR, for you. We hope to make the next release at the end of this month around Halloween.
You may not know that Halloween originated in our part of the world, but we promise not to introduce too many scary features this time 🙂 .
Our next release will include a number of Updates & fixes as follows: Continue reading Crowdfunding Campaign Update – 23rd Oct 2013
We are working on a project to create a custom TV remote to control a SKY+ satellite box, for a friend who cannot manage the standard remote control or even the accessibility ones that are available.
Hi Backers
We have just started emailing the download intructions for AnalysIR.
If you have not received your email within the next 3 hours, please send us a message vis IGG or directly via email. info@A?????IR.com.
tnx
Hi All
Just a ‘heads up’ to let all backers know that we plan to issue the next release of AnalysIR to everyone within the next 12 hours, as originally planned.
During the last 4 weeks we have received both valuable & contructive feedback, resulting in over 100 Updates or fixes and which also include a selection of new bonus features. As with all new Software, we expect to have more issues reported and we will continue to issue new releases with fixes and additional features monthly or weekly until then end of 2013, as required.
We are very excited about AnalysIR and thanks to the great feedback & suggestions received so far, it is now a much more feature-rich and comprehensive tool than we ever imagined when we embarked on this campaign. We would encourage you all to continue suggesting enhancements and reporting any issues or usability improvements over the coming months.
Download & installation instructions will be contained in the email to be issued later directly to backers. This will be an 0.9.x release and we hope to upgrade this to a 1.0 release before the end of the year.
Thanks again for all your support!
Just a quick update to let you know how things are progressing with the phase 1 roll-out.
Today we have issued our 2nd release to the initial participants which includes 22 updates and fixes to AnalysIR plus many other updates to the User Guide. AnalysIR has benefited greatly from the feedback received with a bonus of more features added.
We have recently received an Arduino DUE and have succeeded in porting our existing Arduino code to this new device. The porting was surprisingly quick and very few changes were required, which is all credit to the Arduino Team for making it so easy for us. The DUE code will be merged into our release cycle sometime over the next month or so.
So far we have had mainly positive results on the Arduino platform. However, the Raspberry Pi platform (RPi) is presenting more challenges than anticipated. The good news is that we believe we have a workaround for RPi and we will work on resolving any trailing issues over the next weeks. Another aspect of the RPi roll-out is that it requires greater knowledge of things such as Linux, networking and compiling on the RPi for users. We will put some thought and effort into trying to simplify this experience – but this may take more time than anticipated. Arduino is just so easy to use…..
At this time, we would also like to open up the phase 1 roll-out to another 10 backers on a first come basis. So the first 10 emails to arrive in our inbox, from backers, will receive an invitation. You can use the IGG message feature for this or just email info@A?????IR.com (replace the A?????IR with our name). To participate you will need an Arduino or RPi and an IR receiver and of course time.
At this point we still expect to release AnalysIR to all backers in or around Sep 30th.
Finally, many thanks again for all your support and patience.
Hi All!
I just received an email from one backer enquiring about when AnalysIR will be available for download. Here is an edited copy of our reply, in case any other backers have the same question.
As described on the main Campaign page & updates – we have already issued an invitation email for the phase 1 roll-out, which will begin next week and runs for the next 2-3 weeks. The ‘phase 1 invitees’ were selected as per the criteria on the main campaign page (early backers & backers who contributed the most)
If you did not receive an invitation for phase 1, you will receive an email with details on how to download and register AnalysIR after the phase 1 roll-out is completed. (Hopefully in less than 3 weeks or before September 30th 2013).
Thank you for your understanding and support.
The AnalysIR team
Quick update:
All IR starter Kits are ‘in the air’ and on their way around the world, including the ones requested this week.
We have completed updating the Getting started guide and have installed a website CMS, discussion forum & bug tracking system on our website. However, we don’t plan to expose anything on our website just yet.
We will continue to work through our task list for the remainder of this week.
…..more later.
Wow, what a couple of months this has been with over 1,300 emails received, new partners, over 4,168 referrals to the campaign, 208% funded, several world firsts with IR on Arduino & Raspberry Pi and most importantly backed by 150 people from 32 Countries across the globe. Not to mention some great bonus features added to AnalysIR along the way, some of which have been inspired by our backers.
Our tasks for the next week include, progress on the following:
– Documentation
– Installation Package for download
– Some bug fixing
– Online bug tracker
– Online discussion board
– Web site
– Select & Issue email Invitations to 1st phase roll-out participants
– Ship remaining kits.
I would like to finish up this update by welcoming our latest backers and thanking all our backers for your support.
The AnalysIR Team