From a UX perspective, I discovered why it's useful to have different protocols and devices.  I got several LED lights, each of which came with one of those 16-button generic remotes.  They ALL responded to the same button press, which makes it harder to make each light be a different color using the remote.  It's great they all turn on and off at the same time, though.

The specific set of remote control functions you need depends on which electronics components you have, and how you use them.  It's a lot easier for device manufacturers to just give you a plastic slab with some buttons linked to specific actions, than to figure out how their device might interface with the other dozen RC controlled items in your vicinity.

I once tried to use a generic IRRemote library (the one that j0ule linked) to control a project using IR - but it turned out the code just didn't fit onto an ATTiny, which meant having to implement IR controls from scratch with just the 5-6 signals that we needed to capture.

Have you folks tried out some of the phone-based UI's for setting up remote controls for your devices? 

Anca.

On Jan 9, 2024, at 4:15 PM, Peter Mui via sudo-discuss <sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:

This email just came in as general inquiry on repair.org:

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Hello,

I'm a writer working on a story for the Washington Post and am getting in touch to see if The Repair Association might have someone who would be able to speak to the story I'm working on.

The story is this: We're looking into how we wound up with so many remotes in our homes. The story is a bit on the history and the "why" of why our entertainment centers of the home have come to have a pile of remotes and why they don't all work together, how it came to be this way. I'm looking for experts who work on TVs and entertainment products that have an understanding of why we're here and why there haven't been solutions that keep the consumer in mind.

Thanks for any assistance you're able to provide.
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Does anyone here know how we arrived this cambrian explosion of IR remote codes?

-Peter

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