Then aim your IR Blaster at a device, and click your newly added link. Your signal should be routed from your
phone or computer, over the WiFi airwaves, to the device you want to control.
IR Controller Firmware
Exploring the IRRemoteESP8266 library is just the very tip of this WiFi IR Blaster iceberg. We highly recommend
checking out the IR Controller ESP8266 firmware. This fully featured firmware combines IR send and receive
functions with a web server. It monitors for received commands, and provides a handy interface to emit those back
out with the ESP8266. There are even instructions for connecting the Blaster to an
Alexa service
.
Click the image for a closer look.
If you give this firmware a spin, just remember you’ll need to specify the IR emitter and receiver pins. This is what
I’ve set the
pins
variables to:
