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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Your remote can stay buried in the couch.

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 ...

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 ...

What can you do with an IR remote? How about anything? Maybe not. We’ll settle for issuing arbitrary commands and controlling tasks on our computer. The first step in [Fungus]’s hack is ...