Home Automation using Golang

[Tattoo]

Hi,

I am trying to create an Home automation application(iOS), I would like to control few Appliances that are present in my home.

• As of now I tried Lighting, I was able to Toggle the lights.
  I tried the Temperature reading using DHT11, Yes I can get the room Temperature and Humidity.
  Now I wanted to try to control the Air Conditioner, I tried to make use of LIRC, I even installed it on RaspPi. The components I am using is LED Blaster, LED Receiver, Resistor. However, after googling deeply, I found some answers on other forums, where they mentioned that Air Conditioners are not controlled the same way as TV's are.

I would like If someone could point me out to a location where I can actually start from scratch, about how to go about configuring the "lircd.conf" file. That is a real pain, took me a while to understand it though.

I am trying to control the Air Conditioner through IR and not through the GPIO Pins. My AC is not smart, so I cannot communicate with it through IP as well.

[-rst-]

No experience myself but this looks promising https://www.google.ie/search?q=lirc%20a ... oner&rct=j

[Massi]

I found some answers on other forums, where they mentioned that Air Conditioners are not controlled the same way as TV's are

That's true.
a tv is controlled with simple "relative" commands. For example, "volume +1" or "channel +1"
The command sent is always the specific command

AC is a lot different. When you send a command to an AC (it can also be a simple "degrees +1") you are indeed sending the whole configuration of the AC, from the power status, to the temperature, to the working method and so on.
That's why you cant "read" a command with lirc and repeat it.

I am controlling my ac splits with a raspberry (3 splits) with 3 ir emitters, but i had to decode and reproduce the message layout (not that easy, but a lot of fun)

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