Comment on Recommendations for a universal TV remote?

• Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I checked some reviews to see how they operate. It looks like the main difference is that the Sofabaton does not have “activities” where the remote keeps track of the state of a device. That is a bit of a shame, but other than that is seems like a pretty close match.

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  • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The U2, which is the one that is portable, I.e. no base station, doesn’t have activities, but you can fudge activity behaviour with macros. Its handy to just throw some codes onto it from the app and go.

    The x1s and X do have activities but they are more expensive and need a base station.

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    • Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d love it if they’d release a base station-less version with activity capability. I see no reason why that wouldn’t be possible (other than potentially cannibalising their own sales with a cheaper and similarly capable model)

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      • Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        that’s what the U3 is supposed to be, but I haven’t played with that newer one to know if its any good. I think its still not a full activity thing with power and input state tracking, but just a more advanced macro based system.

        Would work for 90% of people though,

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