Controlling Infrared Devices Remotely with Your Browser

We’ve already created several projects that you can control using a serial monitor. For programmers, that’s a nice and convenient interface, but as soon as you want to present your projects to your nontechnical friends, you’d better have something more user-friendly and colorful.

Now we’ll implement a Google Chrome app to create a nice user interface for our cloned remote control. Before you proceed, you should read Appendix 4, Controlling the Arduino with a Browser, if you haven’t already.

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The Chrome app’s manifest.json file contains no surprises. It defines the application name and grants ...

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