Pascal Hibon wrote: > You dont need to wait that long for such apps. > I used Red Eye and Beacon (the latter is a piece of crap by the way). > Both of these are capable of remote controlling different type and brand > of equipment. Both have IR learning capabilities too. They work very > much like the Harmony remotes. Yet, the hardware remote works a lot > better in my hand for the reasons already mentioned. > I'm not talking about a IR blaster system accessible from a smart phone, that's totally useless, I have to look at the touch screen but the feedback is shown on the actual device I'm controlling. For a universal remote control solution for smart phone/tablets to work, it needs to show the feedback of the action directly on the touch screen and that means all devices need to be connected to the network and expose some kind of API which can be used by the app on the smart phone/tablet. Unfortunately we are no where close to a solution like this, there is just too many manufacturers and no standard, so based on this I think we will really have to live with IR based solutions where the Harmony is excellent for another 5-10 years, at least.
This is also why a IR based solution really need hard buttons on the remote, which you can feel without looking at the remote, without hard buttons you will end up with the same problem as the IR blaster based solution you describe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97925
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