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POLL: Which remote do you use?
bogdanbz:
A Samsung TV universal remote (because I have no Samsung products that can be controlled by IR whatsoever) + an IR receiver made out of a cheap Chinese Sparkfun Pro Micro clone (with ATMEGA32U4 microcontroller for native USB interface) with custom software I wrote by myself that relies on the Arduino IRremote library for IR decoding and the HID Project library to make the board be seen as both a USB HID and a USB Media device. I just generate USB keyboard key presses or send USB media codes (like Play, Pause, Vol+, etc) when I decode IR signals, and Windows (or any other OS) sees that as if they are sent by a multimedia keyboard connected to the PC.
That's 5 bucks the remote + (was) 10 bucks the board and the Vishay TSOP IR receiver module.
I would use a 4 bucks Raspberry PI Pico (RP2040) board if I were to do this today. If you pick the W version, you could even use BT on it and implement a BT AirMouse receiver instead of a IR remote receiver (or both).
Planning to try a Samsung S95C TV this year, so I will replace the remote with a OneForAll URC3661 remote (a JP1 programmable remote, same as URC3660 or URC3680, for which there is plenty of interest on the JP1 Remotes forum) that I can use to send codes for some other pre-programmed device I don't have and then just change a bit the code I run on the Arduino board, or I can program it to send whatever I want using the RMIR software.
I did not know what to pick in the poll, neither option seemed to fit this case, but it seemed wrong to pick "None of the above". It would be either "Keyboard / Mouse" because that's what it is in the end, or "Hardware - Specialized/but not Expensive".
mwillems:
--- Quote from: bob on March 29, 2023, 09:00:42 am ---I have a Flirc but it's seems close to unsupported at this point and isn't plug and play on linux.
I'd rather find something in that form factor that works with the default Lirc drivers on linux.
There are like 30 different devices listed for it.
--- End quote ---
So FWIW I'm using an old HP USB IR receiver on Linux (like the kind JRiver sells sometimes, or used to sell anyway), and it works just fine out of the box with zero configuration (for the receiver). I did have to reprogram a few of the remote's keys because they worked differently on JRiver for Linux than on Windows, but that's not an issue with the receiver (I don't think).
I initially bought it for a windows box, but was pleasantly surprised that it worked just fine in Debian.
JimH:
Bob, grab the one on my desk (and the remote).
stewart_pk:
Most of the time a Logitech Harmony Elite.
But sometimes MO remote on my android phone especially when I'm using them WDM driver with another application or ASIO In with another device and it's the only way to see what the Internal Volume level is in JRiver.
rec head:
I didn't vote because I have two different scenarios in the same room.
For video I use a Harmony+hub to browse theater view.
For audio (no TV on) I use either MO or JRemote. It depends on which one connects and find the server and renderer. I don't know why they are different but they are. If I'm going to use a chromecast device I lean towards MO because including the CC devices in Zones makes way more sense than separating them.
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