There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them.

Google Assistant smart speakers often only serve a couple of key purposes – to accept commands and play music. With Xiaomi’s new Google Assistant smart speaker, you also get the power to control your ...

Many devices use infrared (IR) as a signalling medium like, for example, RGB LED strip controllers modules and some TV controllers. Often times these signals aren’t meant for secure applications which ...

Depressing a button on a modern Consumer IR, CIR, remote control causes a 940nm LED to blink. As the LED toggles a pulse stream of infrared light is generated. The pulse stream is a pattern which ...

In recent years, the growth in mobile andportable computing devices has led to an increase in demand forwireless data connectivity. Infrared (IR) components offeradvantages of low-cost and low-power ...

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 ...

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has launched a new product dubbed Xiaomi Smart Speaker (IR Control) in India with an Rs. 4,999 (~$63) price tag. The speaker supports voice assistant commands and has some ...