Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-30049823-20190909232421/@comment-30049823-20191007032810

I ordered:

- an Arduino IR receiver kit that came with a remote... but it didn't include the requisite CR2025 battery so I couldn't try it without making a shopping trip.

- one of those skinny 6-button learning remotes pictured above but with orange buttons (cost a dime or so more than the gray-button version, but hey, Nerf=orange, amirite?)

- an IR transmitter LED that you plug into your phone's headphone jack, and install a Zazaremote app to make it blink at whatever frequency by feeding it a loud audio signal. Kinda clever idea. That one didn't arrive yet. =(

So I've got the sucker to power up with a cheap improvised power supply, but still haven't got the remote issue worked out yet. I suspect the Arduino-kit remote is going to be useless; it has a lot of buttons, but what are the odds of any of them sending the right signal? I tried all the buttons on a TV remote and the Disk Shot did nothin' with that.