This repository contains information how to interface a Abus CFF3000 remote control with a Raspberry Pi or similar development board using GPIOs. First of all one needs to disassemble the remote control. Be careful when removing the rubber part from the PCB to avoid tearing off the antenna.

Next step: Soldering a couple of wires. I tried to tap the signals at locations, that are as simple to solder as possible. Unfortunately tapping the LEDs is a bit tricky. Note, that the CFF3000 design is "interesting" and does not use a common ground/vcc for the buttons and LEDs.

To work around the problem with uncommon ground/vcc, I made a small single layer PCB. Some explanations for the schematics: The CFF3000 is connected on the right side of the schematics. Each buttons is connected to a opto-coupler, the other side of the opto-coupler is connected to the computer's GPIO through a resistor as current limiter. The LEDs are also connected to a opto-coupler, but the signal is additionally inverted and cleaned by a schmitt-trigger. This was necessary for proper reading of the green LED. Also the green LED channel has a 100Hz RC lowpass filter (47nF, 33K), since it is driven with a 1KHz PWM signal by the CFF3000 and we want a logical 1 or 0 instead.

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