[Peter]’s folks’ cable company is terrible – such a surprise for a cable TV provider – and the digital part of their cable subscription will only work with the company’s cable boxes. The cable company ...

This nifty little gadget can help solve one of the most annoying TV remote problems, and it even lets you hide boxes behind ...

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 ...

An IR repeater system takes Infrared (IR) light coming from your remote controller and converts it to an electrical signal that can be easily distributed over electrical wiring to one or more IR ...

Infrared (IR) This is the king of control protocols in the living room and in fact just about every remote control made in recent history uses it to deliver controls from across a room. It's very ...

[James] is one of those guys on a quest to control everything with one device. His tool of choice is an Android phone, which can do quite a lot right out of the box. But he was never satisfied with ...

One of the two key “cons” in my review was that the $230 Hue Play HDMI Sync Box, which I otherwise praised as the best way to make your lights pulse in sync with your TV, didn’t ship with a remote, ...

Sometimes, you look around at all these gadgets and in a rare moment of inspiration or madness, you look at them all a little different??? connected in a way they are currently not, but perhaps should ...

Lots of consumer electronic equipment like TV sets, VCRs, CD and DVD players employs infrared remote control. In some cases, it is desirable to extend the range of the available control and this ...