Combines IR and Bluetooth remote control devices into one program.
Infrared Remote Control is a tiny application which can control your Infrared and Bluetooth remote controls directly from your computer.
The program is quite useful in the way it can capture Infrared and Bluetooth commands and manage them from its Windows application. The application is capable of controlling up to 10 different devices and includes different plug-ins: Infrared, X10, Bluetooth, IR Dimmer and even a Winamp plug-in. An input and output plugin are required to run the application in monitoring mode. It effectively captures codes and commanded here.
The interface of Infrared Remote Control is pretty basic and isn't very difficult for most users to understand. Start Monitoring and Stop Monitoring is available from the Monitoring context menu.
Overall, Infrared Remote Control is a useful application for people wishing to capture and use remote control codes from Infrared and Bluetooth devices. It is a little bit old, but still useful.
Features of Infrared Remote Manager
- Analyze the sequence generated by a specific infrared remote control command (in a easy to understand graphical form).
- Extract the data bits from the sequence.
- Generate new commands not available on the standard device remote control.
- Get the status on the phone display.
- Import/export device configuration files.
- Monitor infrared and bluetooth events and trigger any available output event.
- Reset a cm11/cm12 x10 interface when in "power failure" status.
- Store the commands in the remote configuration file, automatically.
- Transmit and receive infrared commands to/from specific zones only, using frank's firm interface.
- Transmit basic x10 commands using a cm11/cm12 interface and friendly names (instead of x10 addresses), using the same com port as for the infrared.
- Transmit commands to other remote controlled equipments (trough radio frequency, power line, etc.), using specific hardware interface.
- Transmit the command using the pc for any 35-40khz operated infrared remote control.
- Use an Ericsson bluetooth enabled phone as a remote control for all your home automation devices.
Compatibility and License
Infrared Remote Manager is provided under a freeware license on Windows from Bluetooth software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 1.7.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
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