IR Reciever "sensor"

hey guys, i have a short question

would it somewhat possible to have a Arduino Supercharged with a IR Reciever working with Arduino-sensor plugin ?
i simply want to have “some” IR commands to be read in order to trigger switches, scenes or something else …

my current plan is a phyton application on the raspberry and execute simple Curl’s to the vera for the same result.
does anyone have semilar things done with Arduino Sensor ?

it just feels to make more sense to have a Arduino do this instead a fully loaded RPI.

I have an Arduino-based IR receiver but it doesn’t use the MySensors architecture. I use a direct Wifi connection and the device emulates a KIRA. It was originally intended to test plugins.

The IR part is quite easy. I used Ken Shirriff’s IR library - see [url=http://www.righto.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html]http://www.righto.com/2009/08/multi-protocol-infrared-remote-library.html[/url].

i was told wifi/lan & Arduino’s are not so friendly in matters of beeing stable …

well my goal is simply to be able to “control” the vera via IR.
by just Teach the harmony some non existing commands with a remote i use somewhere else in the house.

my aproach is to use one of the Raspberries i have flying arround everywhere doing other useless things,
connect the IR sensor … and have a phyton script execute curls.

on the vera just add VMOTION sensors for each “button” i want to use.
the vera then just executes tripped triggers to do what i want the button to do.
the RPI in question has a PiFace and is used for other HA related pourposes … i’m not sure i can just disable one PiFace-input for this pourpose.

later i had the idea to use this issue as an excuse to give mysensors a shot …

but seeing Ken’s blog now … gives thins a new prospective :wink:

instead of “proxy” i can also just make a curl …
and everything becomes alot more Hardware’ish … which i actually prefer for a application like this.

i was told wifi/lan & Arduino's are not so friendly in matters of beeing stable ..

I take the easy path. I use Wifi UART modules that provide the connection to my LAN. As far as the Arduino is concerned, it just sends and receives via the serial port. I switched to using the USR WIFI232-T modules for the last few devices I’ve made. They cost me USD 12.00 each from China and work very reliably. They are configured using their in-built web server.

I’ve attached the basic wiring of an Arduino Pro Mini and USR WIFI232-T as an IR transceiver. There is really not much to it.

That is VERY interesting indeed!
Thanks alot

but can the Wifi UART then excute curl’s to trigger the vera ?

i guess a "RS232 serial UART to Ethernet Module " would do the same job ?
like this one: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/UART-ETH-E001-Cortex-M3-kernel-TCP-UDP-LWIP-protocol-UART-and-Ethernet-converter-connector-communication/1790160937.html