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by tkems 877 days ago
For IR remotes, there are a few ways to go about it. If you have a remote you want to clone, you can just use the flipper to clone and map buttons to a custom remote. If you don't have the remote and have a common device (like TVs), I would check this repo on Github [0] and see if you can find a compatible IR file. Note, you need a micro SD card in order to move the files onto the flipper, but a small one works fine.

I've had good luck with the basic universal remote when I'm in a pinch. Also, you can create custom IR files, but it can be a pain with encoding. The flipper forums are a good resource too [1].

[0] https://github.com/Lucaslhm/Flipper-IRDB

[1] https://forum.flipper.net/

2 comments

Seems like there is at least a bit of interest [1] to convert lirc definitions [2], which is great, because there are so many of them. There even is a definition for my about 30 years old hifi! A really nice hack I saw is to send the code via something that reads lirc and capture it with a flipper in learning mode [3].

[1] https://forum.flipper.net/t/is-possible-to-convert-irplus-fi...

[2] https://lirc.sourceforge.net/remotes/

[3] https://github.com/Lucaslhm/Flipper-IRDB/pull/294

sweet. thank you