I see your problem. You’re letting other people use the remotes. The solution is to keep them with you at all times and if anyone tries to touch YOUR remotes threaten them with a fate worse than death (or no pudding). Problem solved.
We have a Logitech Harmony and it works well once set up. Pick an activity (e.g. Watch TV) and it switches the TV, freeview box and stereo, sets to the right inputs, then the channel up/down, volume control, etc send commands to the right box.
but it’s now 2 years behind schedule. Not a huge problem as my house is still not built but annoying and wonder if it will ever appear. I did mention voice control to the creators back at the start but they didn’t want to delay the program (hmm, that ship has sailed) but hopefully it should integrate nicely with Amazon’s Alexa/Echo/Dot devices for that.
Presumably the all in ones don’t to WIFI as well as IR? In which case I still need my firestick controller ‘cos I prefer it to my phone.
Fire Stick does HDMI-CEC (aka sending commands via the HDMI port). You can use your TV’s commands for up/down/left/right/select/play/pause etc and it sends them to the Fire Stick. Works fine for me.
I just superglue them in front of the devices they control – problem solved – ok you have to get off your arse to use them but a bit of movement never killed anyone.
Just buy all sony stuff and bravia sync means we never have to worry about multiple remotes
it genuinely makes my life easier
Bravia Sync is just HDMI-CEC with a Sony brand name. Same with all the other brands, Regza-link, Viera-link and all the rest, it’s all CEC and should all interoperate with each other as it’s a standard. Giving it a fancy name is a bit of a trick to ensure brand loyalty. Er, oh, sorry.
I’ve had Harmony remotes for years, they’re great (control lights, fan, sockets, etc) although when it becomes time to replace it I might have another look around as they’re not great at integrating with other products/standards.
Actually the best thing about my Harmony is that it’s RF so you don’t even have to point it at (or be in the same room as) the thing(s) it’s operating.
I had a Harmony 650 but I found it kept going into some kind of new user/setup mode where it kept asking me to press certain keys before it started working again. Has this been fixed? If so I might try one again.
sounds faulty… I have had a One, then a 900, then an Ultimate (which Logitech kindly sent me after the battery in the 900 developed a problem) which barring the battery thing (which didn’t actually affect it really) have been faultless.
we have the same problem at home…the dvd remote always disappears then magically reappears, the tv and sky Q remote does the same trick…most of the time theyre always stuffed inside the sofa cushions
remedy for the sky Q remote was to try encouraging the wife and kids to use the other remote instead which is bluetooth connected and can be located using the sky Q box…but no-one likes the touch pad on it
Bravia Sync is just HDMI-CEC with a Sony brand name. Same with all the other brands, Regza-link, Viera-link and all the rest, it’s all CEC and should all interoperate with each other as it’s a standard. Giving it a fancy name is a bit of a trick to ensure brand loyalty. Er, oh, sorry.
its fine by me, my sony TV is great, got a sony soundbase on a great deal at john lewis and its very good and what better excuse to buy a playstation 😉
Why has no-one come up with a phone app for this? Phones can do every bloody thing else!
Plenty of phone remote apps available. Just need a phone with an IR port, which isn’t that common but still pretty widely available. Often on samsungs, LGs and some of the cheap chinese ones. Not as nice to use as a proper remote but handy occasionally