02-22-2016, 02:12 PM
I suspect what it means is the board has a 3 pin slot you can plug an IR receiver into, and presumably software will be added to work with the IR remote that they sell in the backer kit (PINE64 Basic Media IR Remote Control, $6.99 for kickstarter, $9.99 afterwards). I would hope that the IR controller also includes the IR receiver that you can plug into the Pine64.
If pine64 doesn't include the IR receiver, you can get them at various DIY electronics stores. For example, Sparkfun sells one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10266?...1453425490, and Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/products/157.
However, decoding IR signals are timing dependent, which is not something that general OSes like Android or Linux are good at. Hopefully there is code in the kernel to do the decoding in real time.
If pine64 doesn't include the IR receiver, you can get them at various DIY electronics stores. For example, Sparkfun sells one: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10266?...1453425490, and Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/products/157.
However, decoding IR signals are timing dependent, which is not something that general OSes like Android or Linux are good at. Hopefully there is code in the kernel to do the decoding in real time.