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How to deal with those annoying TVs blaring Fox News all day (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://bsky.app/profile/funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social/post/3lmkfwebeuc27

In fact you can use your smartphone to change the channel on nearly any TV. In the comments on that post some people talk about how to do it. Basically you need a smartphone with either builtin IR or use a USB-C IR blaster or if your phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack you can also try one of those but I'm not sure if the 3.5mm ones are as commonly supported.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Flipper Zero ftw

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Really expensive for the use case.

I considered it recently but then the flipper zero community was like "Spend $15 bucks for a universal remote man."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha im in the middle of switching careers into IT/CS and I figured it would be a good investment for the future or at least to tinker with. I've just had to focus on other things for certs I need, so no time to really dive into it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I have one, for a year now or so. But haven't use dit much really. And now the flipper one is announced. So I wished I waited and bought that one instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I really need to get one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I'd wait a bit. The flipper one is announced.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And I need to learn to use mine better. All I got is a couple of neat magic tricks like turning off TVs or scanning people's cats lol

Just been too busy learning other things lately I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Yeah same here. Not really using it for anything other than that. Oh and opening tesla charge ports.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

scanning people's cats

... Pardon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haha some people have their pets microchipped so they can be scanned and returned to the owner if lost. If you run the flipper over the right spot (and in the right mode), generally between the shoulder blades, it'll tell you if they're chipped and read out some of the data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if chip == True:
    print("is cat")
else:
    print("might not be cat")