It seems I have a different handheld controller supplied with my unit.
When I pulled the Arilux apart to add your firmware I realized there was only 1 wire connecting the iR receiver to the Airlux and thought how can this possibly work. Then I quickly discovered that it wasn’t an iR receiver but rather an antenna.
A quick sniff around using my RF Gateway and it’s using the Chinese Protocol 1 to send commands. They must of thought what if the Arilux is mounted in a position where iR cannot get to it and made improvements.
Anyway, just an observation. Obviously your software can still work but would have to be re-written for an RF version of the remote if people still want to use the little controller. I may do that. I have never checked if libraries like RCSwitch work on ESP’s. Was so close to implementing but I want control from the handheld as well cause sometimes it’s a pain to get to HA just to change a colour.
EDIT: The remote sends both iR and RF but only RF is received on my controller.
Kman