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Recommendations for a universal TV remote? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So...this is very tangentially related to Self Hosting, but hear me out...

We travel frequently, either for work or leisure. As a self-hoster, I always bring an Nvidia shield player on my travel bag, to connect to my Jellyfin host from whichever hotel we might be staying at, to watch at night for example.

But increasingly, this is becoming a pain in the butt. As most TVs aren't directly hooked anymore to just the antenna or the hotel's connection. No, they usually will be hooked to an Android box handling all sorts of crap, from the hotel welcoming screens to some info, to their pre-set channels. And the android remote works via HDMI-ARC to control the TV, of which they usually hide the damn OEM remote. So, if you unplug their android box to hook up your own player, you lose the TV controls. In some cases (Sony, mostly) you might be in luck finding the 3 physical buttons they include somewhere on the TV itself to navigate inputs and volume. But in some others, you might as well end up stuck in an Android app menu where you can't get out (I'm looking at you Phillips). So I think my next addition would be to get an universal remote to sort all these quirks when traveling. Anyone else went through these considerations? Any recommendations?

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your comment! The Sofabaton is something I might be considering. Can it be programmed without the app? Does it have an internal database of devices, or it needs to download each individual device from the app each time? I'd like it to be rather...independent, and offline...But not sure if that's possible.

And...If you had the opportunity to buy another Harmony, would you? Seems there's still some available for sale in my area. Do I depend on any service from Logitech? Any app that needs to be online, servers, etc? Or can it operate on its own offline

[–] AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Can it be programmed without the app?

Not as far as I can tell. You need the phone app to program it via Bluetooth. I suspect that the app has all of the codes and does not need connectivity once you've downloaded it, but the database of codes would live in the app and not in the remote hardware.
I would prefer another Harmony to the Sofabaton U2, but the Harmony still relies on an app to program it. Unfortunately, according to this
https://support.myharmony.com/en-us/download#harmonyRemote7x
the software is no longer available, and even if you could snag it you wouldn't be able to make a new account to use it (obviously it's bullshit that you need an account, but c'est la vie.) Basiclly: Harmony had good hardware and bad software, the Sofabaton is the other way around.