• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s been nice to copy hotel keys when I’m traveling. It really goes to show how easy it is.

    But most of the time I just use it to emulate amiibos.

    I also have a terrible remote for a ceiling fan. It eats through those super short batteries that are in garage door openers even if it’s never used. I recorded those sub ghz and just use the flipper now.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      How do you emulate devices? Point the remote at the flipper and it reads the signal? Do you set up a ‘fan remote’ module and program every button one by one?

      If so, that actually sounds awesome. I don’t have a tech heavy house, but sitting down for a movie requires 3 remotes (TV, sound bar, light dimmer). Being able to quickly do all 3 on one device would be great. Maybe not worth $170 alone, but I bet I could find many more uses.

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        1 year ago

        Depends on the device. But generally you put the flipper into capture mode, then run an action on whatever you want to capture (i.e. press a button on the remote). If its IR you have to aim it at the flipper, if its sub-ghz you just hold the two near enough.

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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      1 year ago

      If you have enough of those wireless fans, think about getting a bond bridge (check they’re supported first though). I have mine for $99 and it’s controlling every ceiling fan+light in the house, hooked up to homeassistant locally (no cloud involved).