updateTurns out I have BusPirate v3, and I learnt that there is this awesome library Sigrok that has PulseView which supports the BPv3. Unfortunately, it did not work very well, the support is
buggy to say at least. Also, I am yet not sure how to export the analog capture from the Arduino into audio so I can try to import it with some other tool, I need to investigate the easier way to do that correctly.
Furthermore, I found this thread:
https://github.com/markszabo/IRremoteESP8266/issues/21 where some people claim decoding successfully using a 38khz tsop38338, or even some 36Khz based ones on some RC-MM based devices.
So my next actions will likely be:
- Buy some 36Khz based IR and maybe another 38Khz one, but the tsop38338 variant
- Buy a cheap 24Mhz 8CH based logic analyser that works with Sigrok and Pulseview, that needs some learning but that´s also the purpose of all this
- Maybe try some other library or device other than an Arduino, although that´s likely not the issue here
Still trying to figure out

, any advice or guidance is welcome.
@tooki
Thanks, I found mentions to that as well. Known "Philips" protocols are RC5 and RC6 but also the RC-MM (aka "Nokia32") could be what this remote is using... hard to tell. But after some more reading there are more chances of this using RC-MM
with toggle bits. It would be ideal to be able to test with a library that implements it correctly.
@Psi
I think either the IR receiver should be 36Khz to actually work, or it is not RC protocol but RC-MM. And using an oscilloscope would be nice, sure.
So, I purchased a DSO138 (200KHz 1Msps) for like 14$ and I know it´s a toy and rather useless but I think for the purpose of displaying IR signals and learning the very basics it can be helpful.