Wifi IR Blaster Project

My new IR Blaster project

Thanks to mdhiggins for putting together this great tutorial and diagrams for building an IR Blaster based upon the NodeMCU platform.  This was my 3rd attempt at this project and his design is my favorite and the only one that has potential to work the way I want it to.

Here is a link to his GitHub:
https://github.com/mdhiggins/ESP8266-HTTP-IR-Blaster


This reference also helped me:

Source:
https://dziadalnfpolx.cloudfront.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/esp8266-nodemcu-dev-kit-v3-pins.jpg

And her is the board I am using:

I will continue working on this project and hopefully show the finished project when I am done.  I also 3d printed a mounting case for this as well.  This will be the base for my new Alexa voice commanded IR devices such as TV's and IR fans.

I also found that I had to tweak some of the Arduino 1.8.5 defaults settings as you can see here when I uploaded IRController.ino.  

Things I updated:

Board: Generic ESP8266 Module

Flash Size: 4M (3m SPIFFS)

Debug Port: Serial

Reset Method: nodemcu

Port Com4 (this will vary)

And to integrate with Alexa/SmartThings....

http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Control_your_TV_through_Alexa_and_Smartthings

Another tutorial that I referenced:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Universal-Remote-Using-ESP8266Wifi-Controlled/

Easy way to flash your ESP8266 Module back to factory defaults if you make a mistake(I did):

https://github.com/nodemcu/nodemcu-flasher