/raspberry-pi-ir-hat

Raspberry PI IR Tx/Rx

Primary LanguageRust

Environment variables

  • LOG_LEVEL
  • MQTT_ID (default: pi-ir)
  • MQTT_HOST
  • MQTT_PORT (default: 1883)
  • MQTT_TOPIC_PREFIX (default: home/ir)

MQTT

  • ${MQTT_TOPIC_PREFIX}/receive/raw - raw IR data (see LircEvent)
  • ${MQTT_TOPIC_PREFIX}/receive/decode - decoded IR data (see DecodeResult)

Setup Raspberry Pi

  1. Install rpi-imager locally

  2. Edit Settings

    • hostname: ir
    • set username/password
    • (optional) configure wireless lan
    • set locale settings
    • enable ssh

  3. Start the Raspberry Pi, open a command prompt and ping ir.local

  4. Open a terminal

     ssh <username>@ir.local
 sudo apt update
 sudo apt -y install git
 # copy id_rsa from host computer
 chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
 ssh-keygen -p -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa # remove password
 git clone git@github.com:joeferner/raspberry-pi-ir-hat.git
 ./raspberry-pi-ir-hat/scripts/raspberry-pi-setup.sh

Raspberry Pi development

  1. Install "Remote Development" extension pack for VSCode.
  2. Connect VSCode via ssh (Ctrl+Shift+P -> Remote-SSH: Connect to Host...) <username>@ir.local
  3. Stop service sudo systemctl stop raspberry-pi-ir-hat-network-bridge
  4. Run RUST_BACKTRACE=1 LOG_LEVEL=debug cargo run