This is a living document to track my progress, success, and failure at building a HomeKit-powered Infrared (IR) emitter to power appliances like my TV and air conditioner
Right now this is just a list of the things I bought. It is not a bare-minimum setup.
- 400 point breadboard $3.99
- NodeCMU v2 $8.79 (aka ESP8266)
- Raspberry Pi starter kit $49.99
- Micro SD card 8gb $4.99
- Stick-on IR emitter $9.19
- HAP-NodeJS installed on the Raspberry Pi to be a HomeKit server
- IRremoteESP8266 to send IR from the ESP8266
- Download NodeJS find "All download options" and download the
node-vX.X.X-linux-armv7l.tar.gz - MQTT.fx for testing MQTT topics
- MQTT server for ESP8266
