Greg Erskine wrote: 
> hi Matt,
> Best bet is to look at your IR receiver datasheet, it should have a
> typical application schematic.
> regards
> Greg

Ah - I see.  I just followed the instructions which seemed to show
(including the YouTube video link Ralphy posted) you connect the three
pins to 3.3v, GND and OUT to GPIO pins directly.  

The datasheet does have an application example circuit, but it doesn't
show the OUT connected to anything other than a transistor which
connects the other two pins back to Vs and GND, which is confusing to a
noob like me ;) (you'd never think I scraped an AS level Electronics
once upon a time! ;) ).  It seems like the OUT never connects back to
the receiving device (the Pi in this case)

I've got a mate who is a whizz at electronics (he works on developing
code for car radios and makes test/demo hardware circuits for fun), so
I'll get him to show me what I'm missing and go from there.

Many Thanks for the pointers! :)

Cheers,

Matt.


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