Mini Remote Gadget for Windows 7/8

Has anyone tried this out or is there no interest in a gadget like this?

I can make it do a lot more but I don't want to waste my time if no one is going to use it.

If you click on his link from "Chrome" it will download a file onto your computer. I never heard of this before and don't see why I would want to change channels from my computer.

i mentioned in the release thread that it does work, and thanks for sharing. personally, i have no use for it.

joed32 said:

If you click on his link from "Chrome" it will download a file onto your computer.

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As it should. You would then Open the file to install it.

joed32 said:

I never heard of this before and don't see why I would want to change channels from my computer.

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Right, it is new.

When I posted the AutoTune gadget last week there was a request to add the ability to change channels directly within it. This gadget provides that functionality seperately.

I can make this one do a lot more: Pause, Play, FF, REF, Rec, etc. But I don't want to if no one sees any interest.

shmengie said:

i mentioned in the release thread that it does work, and thanks for sharing. personally, i have no use for it.

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This is a different gadget, and a different release thread.

I would only use something like this as a stop-gap measure until my replacement remote arrives after I lost it or it ceased working.

I use it daily.

I often find myself in the kitchen around the start of the Mets ballgame and it nice to have my HR34 Autotune to the game from the news show I had on.

Throckmorton said:

I can make it do a lot more but I don't want to waste my time if no one is going to use it.

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I'm not a Steve Jobs fan. I sort of doubt that he would have ever considered any of his ideas a waste of time. Whether or not I found a use for them. Your stuff is interesting, go ahead and piss on a tire.

Throckmorton said:

This is a different gadget, and a different release thread.

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Ah, so it is. :blackeye:

I use the Autotune and would occasionally use the Keypad feature. However, I'd rather see them merged into one gadget to reduce desktop real estate. . . even making it smaller.

I probably won't use this gadget, but could you post a link to the Autotune gadget? That sounds like something I would like.

dennisj00 said:

I use the Autotune and would occasionally use the Keypad feature. However, I'd rather see them merged into one gadget to reduce desktop real estate. . . even making it smaller.

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When the request to add the keypad came in I thought it better to make a seperate gadget. But I see your point. Maybe I can make one gadget with several tabs. How does that sound?

Regarding it being smaller, I don't think I can reduce it much. You know you can shrink it down when not in use, right?

bakers12 said:

I probably won't use this gadget, but could you post a link to the Autotune gadget? That sounds like something I would like.

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Here you go: http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=204819

I like the idea, but it wouldn't work for me as I have no idea what channels are what and don't think I've ever entered a channel number directly..

Now, if it had list and guide, it would be very useful for me.

spartanstew said:

I like the idea, but it wouldn't work for me as I have no idea what channels are what and don't think I've ever entered a channel number directly..

Now, if it had list and guide, it would be very useful for me.

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Do you mean just add

• and [GUIDE] buttons? I could do that.

list, guide, up, down, select, ff, play

Okay.

Would be nice to be able to enter multiple IP addresses to create a list of receivers to pick from before changing channel etc. But then again that might make it too easy to mess with the other viewers in household as they watch live TV. :lol:

skinnyJM said:

Would be nice to be able to enter multiple IP addresses to create a list of receivers to pick from before changing channel etc.

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Having 3 active myself, I agree.

skinnyJM said:

But then again that might make it too easy to mess with the other viewers in household as they watch live TV. :lol:

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Then there's that.