Getting Started

The basics

For sending messages, look at the IRsend class.

For receiving messages, look at the IRrecv & decode_results classes.

Air Conditioners

For generic Air Conditioner control, look at the IRac class & the stdAc::state_t structure.

For detailed Air Conditioner control, you need to determine what protocol the library detects your remote/Air Conditioner to be, look into the appropriate src/ir_Protocol.[h|cpp] files and use the appropriate class object. e.g. if IRrecvDumpV2 (or better) detects the protocol as KELVINATOR, open the src/ir_Kelvinator.* files, and examine the IRKelvinatorAC class the methods available to create/decode/send KELVINATOR messages with all the abilities the library offers. You can also select it from the Classes menu above.

Various native constants & options for a given Protocol's class object can be found in the associated header file for that protocol.

Examples

Most of the common uses of this library's APIs have demonstration code available under the examples directory. It ranges from trivial examples to complex real-world project code.

Tuning

The most commonly used & needed knobs for controlling aspects of this library are available via run-time class methods or at class-object instantiation. Again, you are referred to the IRsend & IRrecv classes.

Advanced

Certain addition constants and options are available as compile-time tweaks. You should inspect IRremoteESP8266.h, IRsend.h, & IRrecv.h for General, Sending, & Receiving tweaks respectively.

Protocol timings

Generally you should never need to adjust the timing parameters for a given protocol or device. However, occasionally some individual devices just want to be special. If you are having problems decoding/receiving a message, look into the tolerance, kTolerance, or IRrecv::setTolerance constants/methods etc first. However, if your problems is sending, or adjusting the tolerance doesn't work you may need to tweak per-protocol timing values. These are stored as constants in the ir_ProtocolName.cpp file for the given protocol. This is typically a step of last resort.

Reducing code size & flash usage.

You can disable most protocols by either modifying the appropriate #‍defines in IRremoteESP8266.h or passing the appropriate compile-time flags, as documented in the same file.

Avoid using the A/C classes, especially the IRac class as they will force the compiler to include large amounts of code you may not need.