In Search of the Best Programmable Universal Remote?

Posted by Cliff on Friday September 28, 2001 @05:47AM from the coffee-table-device-convergence dept.

option8 asks: "Now that i have more components in my living room than I have room on the coffee table for their remotes, I'm looking into getting a programmable universal remote. I've looked at some of the spiffy touchscreen jobs, like the Philips Pronto and even some of the new color remotes, but it seems to me that spending more for my remote than I did on my DVD player is overdoing it somewhat. Also, all I've found are ones with windows support for building screens. Are there any out there that I can use with Linux?" There was a previous Ask Slashdot on this subject back in '99, anything new to report since then?

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The Pilot by Deanasc · 2001-09-28 05:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

There's a programmable remote control program for the Palm Pilot.

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PDA? by dankjones · 2001-09-28 05:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

I thought you could program PDA's to do that.
use your palm OS device by wwest4 · 2001-09-28 05:57 · Score: 0, Redundant

You can always use Omniremote for Palm OS if you have an infrared-enabled Palm. Even if you have one of the older models with relatively weak IR, you can purchase a strong IR module. The software is pretty cheap.
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