My surround system remote is starting to show its age so I decided to make an IR receiver to save and salvage its codes for ...

One small purchase added multiple devices to my smart home setup.

Buy one of these 10 best smartphones with infrared blaster and remote control functionality and you will never have to look for your remote controller again. If you didn’t own a mobile phone 10 years ...

Infrared (IR) This is the king of control protocols in the living room and in fact just about every remote control made in recent history uses it to deliver controls from across a room. It's very ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You're trying to find the remote control, but it's nowhere to be seen. It could be down in the cushions, or maybe one of the kids made off ...

Amazon’s latest hardware product is the Fire TV Blaster. Priced at $34.99, the Amazon Fire TV Blaster improves IR control for an existing setup. Unlike other Amazon Fire TV devices, the Amazon IR ...

For today's how-to we spent some time rummaging around in our parts box to build a serial IR remote interface for our PC. We took a few pieces from various designs to come up our own, built ...

Amazon has announced a new Fire TV accessory called the Fire TV Blaster. It’s a $34.99 IR blaster that’s designed to let you control hardware like your TV set or cable box using Alexa in concert with ...

Let’ get into more familiar territory on our list of 10 best smartphones with infrared blaster and remote control functionality. Interesting thing is that HTC was packing IR blaster into M7, M8, and ...