Some questions about connecting IR-Sender/Receiver to Arduino

[explit28]

Hello @kasbert
I try to rebuild your Project, but have some questions:

As i understand, i must use Arduino Leonardo because it supports HID and Keyboard/Mouse Functions
On which PINs on the Arduino i connect the Irda Sender/Receiver Module?

Which one have you used?

Maybe you can add this Info to the readme?

BTW: I try to use SurfStation JNT Keyboard
Ident-Nummer: 0054701
Model-No: FDC-3101

I hope it will work...

Thank you very much.

[kasbert]

I used micro pro, because I connected the keyboard to a VIC-20. The code should work with any Arduino that works with the ir library. If you want to connect it to a PC as a HID keyboard, Leonardo is a good choice.

The pin is defined in line 22

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Tell IRremote which Arduino pin is connected to the IR Receiver (TSOP4838)
//
#if defined(ESP32)
int IR_RECEIVE_PIN = 15;
#else
int IR_RECEIVE_PIN = 2;
IRrecv irrecv(IR_RECEIVE_PIN);

I don't quite remember which version of the IR library was used and if there were limitation with the used pins. I guess it is using bit-banging and would work with any normal GPIO pin.

I used IR receiver meant for IR remotes. IrDA components may or may not work, I don't know.
https://www.vishay.com/docs/82459/tsop48.pdf