Posted: 12/13/2010 4:22:11 PM EDT
| Ok, so it's that time of year, and AV questions seem to be rather prevalent right now. My question is have any of you tried a universal remote with bluetooth capability, and, if so, which ones do you like? |
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I know Harmony has a stand-alone box that does IR to Bluetooth, but as far as I know it only works with the PS3 (no Wii or other stuff). I think it costs about $50 and can be used with any Harmony remote. I'm not sure if they have built-in Bluetooth on a normal remote yet. Another option is to get a cheap IR remote + dongle for the PS3 for under $10 and toss the remote and program the universal remote to emulate the cheapo remote. The only down side to this is that the PS3 can't be turned on with IR so you would have to get up or use a controller to turn it on. Of course, you have to get up to put a Blu-Ray in too, so this might not matter to you. I use an IR dongle with a Harmony One remote and find it works well enough that I haven't bothered to shell out for the IR to Bluetooth box. |