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Infrared range
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Anyhow... For my TV and Horizon I had to aim it exactly, one inch to the left and it doesn't work. The beam is too narrow and too weak in my opion. I remember Emile saying that, after they had some problems with production and added the holes for the iR-leds, the range had improved to about 7 meters... My best guess is that the holes are to small (or the led are not close enough) and blocking the IR some-what.
I also have the idea the holes are not big enough and/or the led are to far back and/or the LED are not good aligned with the holes.
If I'm right since first shipments there's almost no improvement on IR.
Very curious IF and HOW Athom can fix this.....
And yes, according to this Kickstarter update (and the associated video), IR range should be a lot better!
Today I figured out (with the help of this thread ) that for some signals I had to push and hold the button for 3 seconds and wait some time before the signal showed up in the learning menu.
For other signals, I had to push it multiple times within 3 seconds and wait for the signal to show up.
Apparently I was not patient enough for the signal to show up in the menu.
The range of the IR is OK here. It's about 5 meters from homey to the tv. But I must say that homey is pretty good aligned to the tv by chance.
I did notice that homey stutters when he wants to speak, switch lights (433mhz) and sends IR signals at the same time.
This stuttering was solved by delaying the IR signal for 1 second.
The last "problem" I had:
When I want to repeat a signal (volume up) several times (x5), the tv only receives some of them.
This was "solved" by putting the "push a buton" card sevaral times in the flow editor with different delays.
But I still notice that the signals were not learned correctly. Probably because this was one of the buttons where I had to push multiple times within 3 seconds to get it learned by homey.
But for now, I'm pretty happy with my homey!
Added another device and that seems to work at a range of say 5 meters (didn't test it futher away) so that's nice!
Interesting thing is that my television only seems to work at a much shorter range, what could be the reason for this?
Last but not least I've got my projector which doesn't seem to work regardless of all suggestions in this thread.
I tried pushing the button a few times in a row, 15 times in 3 seconds, once, just 3 seconds etc. no luck at all.
Is there anything else I could try to make it recognize the device?
Is there another way to tell homey which IR command to send?
after several tests with IR range and signal recognition - here are my findings:
I made tests with simple ON/OFF functionality with 2 different devices: Yamaha Soundbar, Comedes Air Purifier.
The IR range of Homey is not that bad: with 5 meters distance the signal goes through.
BUT the huge problem of Homey is the transmission field (and probably the signal strengt) which means:
Homey and the other device should stand DIRECTLY in front of each other: face to face. The same thing with the position level/height: if Homey's sight angle is steep (f.e. homey stands 2 meters above the floor & device stands ca. 20-40cm above the floor and the distance between them is only 1-2 meters ) - the signal's got lost.
So after my tests I would suppose that the main problem is the poor Homey's IR hardware and the construction (which is limiting the sight angle) itself. This is very frustrating and I'm afraid the guys won't be able to fix those problems with software tweaks.
Of course I can't say at what exact angle the connection is broken. My Homey stands on a shelf approx. 1.90 high. The soundbar is standing on the floor (20cm high) close to the shelf. And there is no way to transfer the IR commands. While the normal remote works great from every position and angle.
I agree with you that the light conditions / reflections could disturb the connection as well. I'll try the same setting at late evening.
But anyway I have to state that the IR functionality is very poor and extremely disappointing. So I really hope those issues can be fixed by software updates.