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Reverse-engineering an AC IR remote protocol

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My new house has a Kelon-branded air-conditioning unit. Wouldn’t it be nice to have it set up in openHAB?
I looked it up online and this unheard of brand’s protocol is nowhere to be found. So I had to figure it out myself.

I reverse engineered its protocol and contributed it to
IRremote-ESP8266.

In this post I’d like to document my experience and what I learned from it.

Read MoreJune 12, 2021 / 27 minute read

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