Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Last Phase

The last step in building our home theater is tying it all together with a universal remote. Why in 35 years the various electronics conglomerates of the world couldn't get together and figure out a universal system is beyond me, and inexcusable. I know, they just didn't want to.
 
We're looking for something that can be run from any of our iDevices from anywhere in the house, something that is expandable to multiple rooms of control, and something that has all codes in the cloud and constantly updated for easy setup and obsolescence avoidance.
 
This one looks promising: The Dijit / Griffon co-venture called Beacon. It's not out until May but I downloaded the app and tried out the setup and it looks awesome. We'll see...

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