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[Cynic]

I have written a Manchester Signal Processor with an associated RC6 and RC5 decoder. The software is written in C# and runs on a Netduino Plus 2. The code is largely focused on interpreting the RC6 Mode 6 IR pulse codes sent by an SKY+ IR remote control - however it should work with minimal adaptation to interpreting the pulses sent by any RC5 or RC6 Philips TV IR remote control.

 

Capabilities

• The IR pulses, suitably decoded from the 38KHz carrier, are input as digital square wave pulses of varying widths on a standard Netduino Plus 2 GPIO pin.
• A software based Manchester signal decoder reads the pulses and records the rising and falling edges of the pulses as time intervals.
• Software decoders are implemented to interpret the time interval array and detect the presence of RC6 and RC5 signals within it.
• Once detected, the bits within the RC5 or RC6 signal are resolved and made publicly available to other routines.
• The full content of the transmitted RC5 and RC6 pulses is contained in a 4 byte Int32 value.
• All control, device, mode, trailer and information field content in the IR signal including the protocol type (RC5 or RC6) is present in the four output bytes.
• All processing is done within an interrupt into static fields. No objects are routinely created and destroyed to process the signal, hence overheads such as garbage collection are minimized.
• The code is written to be quite efficient in both memory and cpu requirements.
• The IRSky software can handle intermixed RC5 and RC6 signals.
• Tested on a Netduino Plus 2.
• The software is written in C#. A Visual Studio 2010 solution and project are included with the source code.
• The PC requires the Microsoft Micro Framework 4.2 to be installed.

The software is offered as open source code under the terms of the MIT License.

 

http://www.OfItselfS...IRSky/IRSky.php

 

[Riverside]

Dear Cynic and others,

 

I'm new to Netduino and this project is the first attempt, it includes a couple of thing I would need in my real project, simple display and remote control, to allow my homet audio to switch a number of devices on/off through a relais.

 

I installed everything and Blinky,  Button, etc, all work fine. This is the message I get when I try to debug the IRSky example, what does it mean and how to resolve. By the way in the documentation it is not clear which pin D9 or D10 has what SPI function for the display. Do we need to use the SS select at all?

 

'The Thread '<No Name>' (0x2) has exited with code 0 (0x0)

 

Thanks