So a GE 45609 (basic on/off with no dim) would be suitable as a wall switch if just using pull chains for fan speed and light? I know this is very old school but I am leaning this way as the path of least resistance now and wanted to make sure it is suitable since the room I have in mind has the only ceiling fan I need to plan for.
Any other common mechanical scenarios to watch out for inductive load? I ask because I couldn’t think of any other in our house (I’m not managing any major appliances with zwave).
My RTL2832U dongle arrived yesterday, and I’m happy to report it works like a champ. As it turns out my fan remote (and quite possibly all consumer fan remotes) uses ASK, so it’s just a series of pulses at the carrier frequency–not unlink IR signals from a remote control. All I needed to do was write a small program to translate the IQ sample data from the RTL2832U driver into a series of timings, which I then sent to @RexBecket’s KiraRX plugin.
I taught the KiraRx plugin the codes from my fan remote, and it now generates events every time a button on my fan remote is pressed. Yes, I’m misusing his brilliant plugin in an unexpected way, but why not!?
Currently I’ve got a few bugs in my wrapper program, but once I get those ironed out, I’ll post the code.
[quote=“SM2k, post:22, topic:179126”]My RTL2832U dongle arrived yesterday, and I’m happy to report it works like a champ. As it turns out my fan remote (and quite possibly all consumer fan remotes) uses ASK, so it’s just a series of pulses at the carrier frequency–not unlink IR signals from a remote control. All I needed to do was write a small program to translate the IQ sample data from the RTL2832U driver into a series of timings, which I then sent to @RexBecket’s KiraRX plugin.
I taught the KiraRx plugin the codes from my fan remote, and it now generates events every time a button on my fan remote is pressed. Yes, I’m misusing his brilliant plugin in an unexpected way, but why not!?
Currently I’ve got a few bugs in my wrapper program, but once I get those ironed out, I’ll post the code.[/quote]
Well, in a complete reversal of my previous statement, the RTL2832U isn’t “working like a champ”. As I have continued to test, my dongle unfortunately seems to have become quite unstable. Most of the time I end up with too much line-noise to get a readable signal. Every once in a while I manage to get things stable enough for a test environment and it works well enough, but the minute I reload the driver program, things fall apart and I spend ten minutes coaxing things to work again.
As much variance as I’ve experienced, I wouldn’t recommend this as a good generalized approach. Time to break out the soldering iron.
