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Episode: 2585
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Title: HPR2585: Check to see if a Remote Control is working
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2585/hpr2585.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 06:09:03
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This in HPR episode 2,585 entitled, check to see if a remote control is working.
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It is posted by Ken Fallon and is about 2 minutes long and can remain an explicit flag.
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The summary is yet another amazing life hack from Ken.
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Hi everybody, this is Ken with a little very short show.
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On how to check if your remote control is working or not.
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Just remote controls work on RF or radio frequency nowadays, but they will still have infrared
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to turn the TV on and do the volume up and down.
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And if you want to check to see if your remote control, if the batteries are flat or whatever,
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if it's not working properly, obviously we can't see infrared, but if you hold up your
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camera to it, so mobile phone camera or a ordinary camera, well it has to be a digital
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camera obviously for this torque because the sensors in the digital camera will pick
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up infrared and convert it into like a lilac or a blue.
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So if you do that and you press the on button or the volume buttons on your remote control,
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you should see the pulses of infrared that's been admitted.
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And you can use that to determine whether you need to change the batteries or not or if
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your remote control has fallen or broken or something.
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So that's always a good step.
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I didn't think that was worth a show to be honest, except today in work, I showed that
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trick to somebody and they went around and told everybody and it seemed quite a lot of
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people didn't know that trick.
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So there you go and we're always short of shows, especially during the summer here.
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So if you've got other tips and tricks, please feel free to pass them on.
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Thank you.
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And tomorrow for another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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To find out how easy it really is, Hacker Public Radio was founded by the digital dog pound
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and the Infonomicon Computer Club and it's part of the binary revolution at binrev.com.
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If you have comments on today's show, please email the host directly, leave a comment on
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the website or record a follow-up episode yourself, unless otherwise stated, today's show
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is released on the creative comments, attribution, share a live 3.0 license.
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