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 ...

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 ...

Your remote can stay buried in the couch.

Two communication links consisting of IR and RF are being used by this remote control which is subdivided into three parts as separate boards including RF transmitter, IR transmitter, and IR/RF ...

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 ...