Hi,
I’m relative new to this, so sorry for my ignorance…
I bought some
- LOLIN D1 mini ESP32 (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001651025278.html)
- LOLIN IR Controller Shield (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32891173618.html)
To get started,
- I just used the D1 mini board without the IR controller shield attached
- flashed “esp32dev-ble-firmware.bin” (v0.9.8)
- connected to my wifi and mqtt broker
and I saw (ble) messages coming in.
So far so good.
Now
- I attached the IR Controller Shield to the D1 mini ESP32 in following way
- ESP32 TXD ↔ IR TX
- ESP32 RXD ↔ IR RX
- ESP32 GND ↔ IR GND
- ESP32 VCC ↔ IR 5V
- ESP32 RST<–> IR RST
- ESP32 3V3 ↔ IR 3V3
etc…
Basically it’s just putting them on each other and connect every pin of the IR to the ESP32
(note that ALL pins of both devices are connected. Picture above is just to clearify wich pins are connected to each other)
Than
- I flashed the device with “esp32dev-ir-firmware.bin”
- connected to my wifi and mqtt broker
but NO ir-messages are comming in.
So next step
- I started with VSCODE and PlatforIO addon,
- download the source code from https://github.com/1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway/archive/refs/tags/v0.9.8.zip
- modified platformio.ini with
default_envs = esp32dev-ir - connected to my wifi and mqtt broker
but still NO ir-messages are comming in.
Because all this was my first time, it took my a whole sunday afternoon, but it was fun!
However, I would like to working configuration 
I suppose I have to make some modification to the pinouts, but have no clue were to start…
So my questions:
- have I connected the both devices correctly?
- what do I have to do to create an OMG IR-receiver with those components
I found some information on
but this is for an ESP8266 board.
any help is appreciated
and thanx for your patience in advance 
grtz
B
