Add a remote control to a Harman Kardon HK6350R amplifier.


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Marcel27

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Posted: 02:31pm 13 Oct 2024      

This is a continuation of my comment in pil99's thread about IR Remote Control Rx and Tx for Philips RC-5 Protocol. I do not want to hijack his thread so I start my own.

I have a beautiful vintage amplifier, HK6350R, without a remote.





The device had some strange problems, the volume runs high or low at random or dropped random in standby mode. The problem was the M50761 processor IC201. After I removed this chip everything worked normal albeit without remote control.



I built the example in the MMBasic manual with an infrared receiver and the simple program example. I had to add 2 resistors of 3k3 and 2k2 because the receiver is fed with 5V. But the first test went smoothly.





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SetPin GP6, IR
Dim INTEGER DevCode, KeyCode
IR DevCode, KeyCode, IRInt
Do
 'body
Loop

Sub IRInt
 Print "Received device = " DevCode ", key = " KeyCode
End Sub

ESC:Exit  F1:Save  F2:Run  F3:Find  F4:Mark  F5:Paste

Below you can see the results of the test, volume +, volume -, Power On and Power Off.

'Test with TFMS 5360 IR receiver 5V type and Harman Kardon substitue remote HK AVR145






Received device =  270, key =  227  'volume up
Received device =  270, key =  19   'volume down
Received device =  270, key =  3    'power on
Received device =  270, key =  249  'power off

The next step is to set up an IR transmitter with a 2nd PICO and check if the communication can be emulated from the HK-remote. If that works, the next step is to modify the program so that it can be embedded in the HK6350R electronics.

To be continued
Edited 2024-10-14 00:39 by Marcel27