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.
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.
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.
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.
If you have enough of those wireless fans, think about getting a bond bridge. I have mine for $99 and it’s controlling every ceiling fan+light in the house, hooked up to homeassistant locally (no cloud involved).
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.
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.
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.
Harmony is EOL these days as well.
Any worthwhile alternatives? I have a SofaBaton remote. It’s… ok…
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.
If you have enough of those wireless fans, think about getting a bond bridge. I have mine for $99 and it’s controlling every ceiling fan+light in the house, hooked up to homeassistant locally (no cloud involved).