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Anyone knows what tech is used by included remote? BT or IR?
by woobar 12y ago
Anyone knows what tech is used by included remote? BT or IR?
- wuliwong 12y agoThis has turned out to be far more difficult to find out than I would have guessed. I still don't know! They also sell an optional "voice controller", I would assume that uses the same tech. Maybe we can figure it out through those specs.
- MattPearce 12y agoI think we can safely assume it is bluetooth (as the streaming stick is usually behind the TV, out of line-of-sight. Plus they need to use bluetooth for the voice controller anyway - good luck transmitting voice data over IR :)
- ryanburk 12y agothe remote for the fire tv is bluetooth[1], so I think that is a safe assumption. and the picture of voice over IR made me think of the IR stream coming out like morse code... [1] http://zatznotfunny.com/2014-04/tale-three-remotes/ http://zatznotfunny.com/2014-04/tale-three-remotes/
- cgarvis 12y agoCould it be using the wifi to transmit the voice commands?
- benologist 12y agoIf it's like the Fire TV remote it's bluetooth and the microphone's inside it.
- vhost- 12y agoThe Roku 3 uses Wi-fi direct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Direct I wonder if it's that or BT.
- edderly 12y agoSame as regular FireTV, bluetooth