Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...

My surround system remote is starting to show its age so I decided to make an IR receiver to save and salvage its codes for future use. These codes will allow me to make a replacement remote, or ...

First-person view of someone aiming a TV remote at a smart TV - Proxima Studio/Shutterstock In recent years, IR blasters have become a standard part of smart TV systems, but it's not always clear just ...

Samsung has removed many features from its popular Android smartphones over the years. Long gone are the headphone jack, SD card slot, and removable batteries, all of which made Galaxy phones more ...

Domninus Scepter is a versatile ESP32-based IR/Bluetooth remote control system designed to control infrared devices such as TVs, air conditioners (ACs), and speakers, with additional Bluetooth ...

Confusing to set up and use. Can’t learn missing IR commands. Voice function is still very limited. When Logitech signaled the end of the universal remote era by announcing the death of its Harmony ...

Stop / Button Release (TouchUp) 0 bt_ir_data == 0 → Stop Stop Motors Stop Button (optional) 5 bt_ir_data == 5 Stop Motors Voice Left 6 bt_ir_data == 6 Short Left Turn (momentary) Voice Right 7 ...

SeeedStudio sent us a tiny Smart IR Remote hub for review: XIAO Smart IR Mate, or XIAO IR Mate for short. At first glance, it looks like any other WiFi IR blasters, but what makes it interesting is ...

You'd think a remote control technology that was first introduced in the 1980s would be completely obsolete by now. But infrared (IR) remotes are still very much kicking half a century later, despite ...