The xiaomi phones still have IR blasters. I can see the appeal of the photos on the sevenhugs website. But it's kind of an ambitious niche product. Looks like s

The xiaomi phones still have IR blasters. I can see the appeal of the photos on the sevenhugs website. But it's kind of an ambitious niche product. Looks like something that's not really sustainable by itself without acquisition. I feel like there's really only a few ways to handle this. Buy devices from the same vendor. Buy devices with another value proposition such as Amazon Alexa. A universal standard with industry backing, but those also usually end up with bigger enterprises putting a lot of unusable stuff in the standard. Or treat it as non standardized and put an IR blaster on top, but then why do I need a physical remote. (I realize the spotify thing looks quite beautiful)