Now I have a small WLED miniboard (ABC! WLED Controller Board mini 5V/12V (ESP32) | HW10014) with the possibility to add an IR receiver. The original firmware 1.13.3 was w/o IR compiled (that is what I suspected), I was unable to find an option to activate IR and the settings for GPIO or IR sender. However, to have a fast test, I downloaded a firmware from WLED installation (wled-install.github.io).
My first try was ESP32 (4MB flash, APA102 2MHz + Alexa/Hue/Infrared enabled). The second try was ESP32 (4MB flash, Ethernet, APA102 2MHz + Alexa/Hue/Infrared enabled, MQTT enabled)
On my first try, I was unable to find the IR settings (like with the original flashed FW). I followed Infrared - WLED Project and searched for the settings, but no success. So, I thought my OTA flash was a fail and I tried the MQTT firmware (only to verify, if I got the MQTT feature). And yes. The second upload gave me an additional section to configure MQTT.
But, again, unfortunately not the IR settings.
I may be doing something wrong. Does anyone have an idea what the problem is and how I get to the settings and why the firmware does not show me any options? Do I have to solve this manually via a custom YAML configuration?
All versions of WLED come with IR enabled by default. The only thing to do is assign GPIO and choose IR remote type in LED settings. You do not need to do anything in Sync settings. Sync settings affect how WLED instances communicate with each other.
Some other forks remove IR in their official builds.
I would also recommend to use 0.14.0-b5 as it has a few updates compared to 0.13.3.
Now, I have everything working. With a debug-enabled firmware (e.g. a build from v0.14.0-b “Hoshi”) I see the IR received codes in the serial debug output.
I would also recommend to use 0.14.0-b5 as it has a few updates compared to 0.13.3.
I don’t think I can use this because there are massive dropout problems. A simple Scan preset with only two to four LEDs and about 1sec per 100 LEDs “stalls” randomly. I.e. at a random point the movement stops and according to the timing, it continues 5 to 20 LED later. There are dropouts again. I have never had this with a 0.13.3.
I have 2 esp syn togetger great. 3rd esp only for ir function to use slider and preset. But when the 3rd esp ir inputs commands it turns everything off on the other conyrollers. And i cant get light , unless i go to my esp with all my presets and choose solid. They all come on. I have 2 gpio segements on 1 esp, and 3 gpio outputs on the second. But if i got to the ir esp and create a output with a bunch of leds on it and in the syc option of that controller hit syn group 1 click it, it sends how many leds on, for controlllers 1 and 2. A.d the remote will change them. But thats not right. I only need the 3rd esp to use remote due to location. I have issues when in presets with saving the presets or segments clicked the checked segment only area. I may just try to run a ir on 1 or 2. But that sync option sounds better.