• yukichigai@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    That sounds like it’d suffer from the same problem a TV App would: if your network is having problems you suddenly can’t control your devices. The less intermediary connections between the controls and the device you’re controlling, the better.

    I mean that’s still kinda cool though, it just doesn’t sound like it’d solve this specific problem.

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      11 months ago

      Harmony remotes use RF to communicate with the IR blasters, so no, there’s no network issues. As for the Harmony app…I never used it, because why would I pay a couple hundred for something that I could do with a free app that uses infrared so no network issues? That, though, would probably have network issues because I don’t think cell phones do RF other than Bluetooth and WiFi.