Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20190909232421/@comment-30049823-20191113211348

Big Update

Codename "Gadget" has arrived!

Huge thanks to Elliottw for spending more on the dang thing than I was willing to, and reducing the wait time hunting for a cheap one indefinitely.

So I had to try it out right away.

- It works directly with the base unit (duh).

- It CAN be learned by those cheapo 5-button remotes from China (yes!), and the signal from that remote DOES control both functions of the base unit (yes YES!), motion toggle AND launch.

- It CANNOT be learned by an HTC One M7/8/9 cellphone sensor (dammit).

- The "learned" version transmitted by the TV remote CANNOT be learned by an HTC cellphone either.

So the good news is, I can build as many Disk Shot substitute remotes as I want, for less than $3 each, with these things: https://www.ebay.com/itm/312779543047

The bad news is, I still don't know what the signals ARE to tell people how they can do it themselves without access to an original Disk Shot remote.

The signal appears to be brief and simplistic (judging by the single blink on the learning remote compared to when it flashes like crazy while transmitting a signal learned from a Samsung TV remote), which is why I think the HTC phone sensor ignores it. The HTC SDK is waiting for an elaborate signal from a modern TV remote, with a header and a repeating pattern with gaps in it. Whereas the cheap Chinese learning remote just reads whatever simplistic OR complicated IR blips you feed it, and plays those back just fine.

So the next step to analyzing the signal is to buy a Raspberry Pi to plug my IR sensor module into... but first I'm going to see if I can record the signal with a camera and color-shift it to the visible spectrum to "see" it. (The max recording framerate might be a limitation here tho)

Thanks again Elliottw!!