But he was never satisfied with its lack of IR remote control abilities ... A cheap serial Bluetooth modem from eBay lets him connect to his phone. An Arduino board listens for data from the ...

The Arduino uses Ken Shirrif’s IR Remote library to handle the infrared remote control functions. SoftwareSerial is used to connect to the Bluetooth module. The Arduino code has built-in ...

Arduino boards get a Bluetooth Smart dev kit from Nordic Semiconductor. The SDK is compatible with a range of Arduino, ChipKIT shields that employ the nRF8001 Bluetooth Smart connectivity device.