A few years ago there were watches that served as remote controls. Today, some nostalgics (like me) still keep these collector’s items. But in addition to these watches that we mentioned, there is an essential element already in the day to day that can also act as a remote control.

We are talking about the mobile phone, that technological tool that has become almost an appendage of our body. The mobile is already a Swiss army knife of technology to which we can put almost infinite uses, and today we are going to see how we have to do so that it also becomes a universal remote control.

First choice: infrared sensor
The first option we have is to use the infrared port of the phone (if it has one). For this, we need to check that our phone has an infrared sensor. Not all phones on the market have it, for example, iPhones are one of them, but later we will see the possibilities we have with Apple phones.

We have two possibilities if we don’t know whether or not our phone has an infrared sensor. The first is to search for the model on the manufacturer’s website and check the specifications, and the second is to directly download the application that will allow us to give it this use because once downloaded, it will directly recognize whether or not our phone has this feature.



The application we are talking about is IR Universal TV Remote that is available on Google Play for free . As we said, if our phone did not have the infrared option, the application itself would inform us and it would be impossible to start the process.

Universal TV Remote
Price: Free
Developer: WaveSpark
Download it at: Google Play


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