• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s been nice to copy hotel keys when I’m traveling. It really goes to show how easy it is.

    But most of the time I just use it to emulate amiibos.

    I also have a terrible remote for a ceiling fan. It eats through those super short batteries that are in garage door openers even if it’s never used. I recorded those sub ghz and just use the flipper now.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How do you emulate devices? Point the remote at the flipper and it reads the signal? Do you set up a ‘fan remote’ module and program every button one by one?

      If so, that actually sounds awesome. I don’t have a tech heavy house, but sitting down for a movie requires 3 remotes (TV, sound bar, light dimmer). Being able to quickly do all 3 on one device would be great. Maybe not worth $170 alone, but I bet I could find many more uses.

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        1 year ago

        Depends on the device. But generally you put the flipper into capture mode, then run an action on whatever you want to capture (i.e. press a button on the remote). If its IR you have to aim it at the flipper, if its sub-ghz you just hold the two near enough.

      • TomTheGeek@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Get a universal remote for your home theater. Flipper isn’t really that usable and not enough buttons for that task. It can, but you’ll be much happier with a Logitech Harmony.

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          The knuckleheads who overspent on our last house left a home theater system with a URC brand universal remote. Once I waded through some incredibly unfriendly forums (apparently the company does not distribute direct to consumers) and finally found an old but usable version of the software, it took a couple of hours to learn it well enough to get everything set up, and I like it better than the Harmony we used to have. When we moved again, I left the projector and speakers, but brought the URC and receiver with us.

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              1 year ago

              Honestly I’m going down a lot of HDMI-CEC magic and a Broadlink with Hone Assistant to make up the rest. Perhaps a zigbee button remote triggering some HA calls?

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      1 year ago

      If you have enough of those wireless fans, think about getting a bond bridge (check they’re supported first though). I have mine for $99 and it’s controlling every ceiling fan+light in the house, hooked up to homeassistant locally (no cloud involved).