2025-10-25 (Sa) BonfireLaserTag Recognzing remote signals

I recovered an old device from a previous laser tag attempt that held a simple infrared remote and a focusing lens. The purpose of the lens was to adjust the settings for one player at a time, rather than flooding a room with the signal and affecting everyone. The remote slid into the device easily, allowing me to swap it out when necessary or fine-tune its position for improved collimation. I recorded the button codes in my Arduino sketch yesterday, but I reconfigured them from a group of named variables into one array. I also stored the codes in my Flipper.

The program scanned through the stored codes with every infrared signal and printed the results to the serial monitor and on-tagger screen. I corrected a couple of mistakes and confirmed that every button functioned properly. One button repeatedly failed, and I confirmed this with an infrared camera, which showed that it never activated the remote's LED. My array allowed the buttons to be stored in numerical order, and I could instruct it to send the numbers of the last fifteen buttons to a function that changed the tagger's team. I copied the team-changing function from the one I wrote for the serial port and made it work for both.

Remote in a range extender shell

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