Tiny learning remote (or one with a large library!)

4 bucks delivered. Ebay is your friend tonight! or Robert Green wrote:> I am looking for a very small IR remote to control a TV (an el-cheapo> Emprex) that my UR24A X-10 8-in-1 remote can operate via Memorex code> 022. A while back I saw something about a company that was selling> them, but somehow, Google isn't my friend tonight. I want something> small enough to velcro to PC keyboard - about the size of an X-10> credit card controller. Although the UR24A does control it, it's> pretty damn huge. Something a little smaller would be nice.>> As I return to Google to try again, what I remember most was that> people were using these to shut off or change channels in bars.>> I tried to see if the much smaller (but still not really small> enough) UR41 "Beer Buddy" would operate the TV, but no joy. It would> be nice if those "push power 1,000 times to find the proper code"> remotes had some way of setting up automatically, perhaps using a>

photocell to tell when a code had actually turned off the TV and> locking in the code that did it. The latest X-10 "Icon" remote does> a pretty good job of setting up devices without having to key in code> numbers, but it's even BIGGER than the UR24, so it's no help here.

Great! Thanks, Bruce. This will be my first order from Hong Kong through Ebay.

-- Bobby G.

or Green wrote:> I am looking for a very small IR remote to control a TV (an el-cheapo> Emprex) that my UR24A X-10 8-in-1 remote can operate via Memorex code> 022. A while back I saw something about a company that was selling> them, but somehow, Google isn't my friend tonight. I want something> small enough to velcro to PC keyboard - about the size of an X-10> credit card controller. Although the UR24A does control it, it's>

pretty damn huge. Something a little smaller would be nice.>> As I return to Google to try again, what I remember most was that> people were using these to shut off or change channels in bars.>> I tried to see if the much smaller (but still not really small> enough) UR41 "Beer Buddy" would operate the TV, but no joy. It would> be nice if those "push power 1,000 times to find the proper code"> remotes had some way of setting up automatically, perhaps using a> photocell to tell when a code had actually turned off the TV and> locking in the code that did it. The latest X-10 "Icon" remote does> a pretty good job of setting up devices without having to key in code>

numbers, but it's even BIGGER than the UR24, so it's no help here.

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I've ordered many things on ebay that come from HK and have never had a problem. Allow 2 weeks for delivery but it could arrive in as little as

4 days.

Robert Green wrote:

That's good to know. The HK vendors I've checked out do a lot of business with fairly good feedback so for $4, I'm not worried. I just hope it's got the required codes in its codebase. HK mail sounds like the mail to Oz. I've sent mail to Melbourne that gets there in just a few days but the longest was 6 weeks. Thanks again for finding it for me!

-- Bobby G.

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BTW, the remote arrived Friday, and though it controls a lot of different TV's, it doesn't control mine. )-: The search method is nice, though. You just keep your finger on the button until the TV turns off and then let go quickly. Very quickly! I think I'll put it on my keychain for the next time I get my tires rotated and have to sit in the waiting room watching Jerry Springer or worse.

I started searching for a learning keychain remote and came across some IR learning wristwatches. Then I remembered in the junk drawer I had a Casio IR learning watch that I had retired because of the very soft plastic crystal. Took the straps off it, put some Velcro in the back and b now I can control the three functions I needed the most (input, ON/OFF and volume) from the end of the keyboard.

-- Bobby G.

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