The infrared remote control might not hold the seat of honor in the average home theater setup that it once enjoyed, but it’s not quite out to pasture yet. After all, what are you going to use to stop ...

Expand the capabilities of the Harmony Hub with the simple, but easy-to-use, Companion remote. Logitech’s Harmony Companion consists of a Harmony Hub and a relatively simple, familiar-looking remote ...

Q: We are a really small business and need to work from home; are the free remote access tools safe to use? A: As more people transition to a “work from home” status, many small businesses are trying ...

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This ultra-simple remote control extender is ideal for use with a hidden video recorder. The recorder is a Panasonic NV-SD200 and is used as part of a camera surveillance system. A PICAXE-08-based ...

Sometimes the simplest way to understand the cause-and-effect nature of automation is to start with the effect. Scenes are the easiest home automations to understand because they're simply a group of ...

Garage door automation, when done well, can certainly make life easier. Connected garage doors keep you from more wondering if you closed the garage door when you left for work or if you remembered to ...

The Button Remote for Apple TV by Function 101 is a simple IR remote that brings physical controls to the Apple TV experience. The Siri Remote that comes bundled with the Apple TV 4K is one of Apple's ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

Here we present a small, low cost single channel receiver, encoding MM53200 and HT-12, with code self-learning function. Decoding is achieved by means of a PIC microcontroller by Microchip, that deals ...

One of the more simple — if important — new features of the Google TV Streamer is the addition of a tiny speaker in the new microphone that enables it to chirp if it becomes lost. Google is hardly the ...