A write-up of getting a cheap Wi-Fi IR remote to reliably control a mini-central air-conditioning damper — including the IR-encoding bug that cost us the most time, and how we worked around it.
Scope & honesty note. This documents a build we actually completed and verified on real hardware. Where we didn't prove a root cause, it says so. Every network-specific detail — IPs, hostnames, SSIDs, credentials, room and entity names — is a
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