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| Topic: | Simple remote for senior citizen with system turn on/off This thread has 3 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday November 2, 2009 at 03:55 |
My mom's 94 year old neighbor has problems watching tv because of having to power up a satellite box going into a dvd/vcr going to a tv. all three components need to be powered up, and the dvd/vcr has to be set to the front input and the tv set to input 2. i've taught him and made big simple diagrams of what buttons to push, but with all the mode switching on the multi-function remote he has, he can't follow it all and if one of the components misses the signal or gets on the wrong input, he can't recover.
i'd like to get him a remote that will perform the power on and input-setting sequence as well as the power-off sequence (like a harmony). other than that he only needs channel up/down and number input. big buttons would also help obviously. a harmony would meet the sequencing needs but is otherwise total overkill.
is there something simple and cheap that i can get him?
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| Post 2 made on Monday November 2, 2009 at 06:15 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Alas small, simple, versatile remotes don't exist - and plenty of people have been looking lately. The only way to that goal is a configurable touchscreen, which can only display the buttons you need. However they aren't really durable...
I suspect you would WANT something like the MX-200 - its buttons could do anything the MX-700 could. Except that there never were many of them made, and they were discontinued many years ago.
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| Post 3 made on Wednesday November 4, 2009 at 23:55 |
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What about something like the current Sony cheapo learning remotes? RM-VL600 or whatever the current one is?
You can set up macros and it should simplify things as you don't have to mode switch and stuff.
I wish they still made the RM-VL710 as it had large buttons.
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| Post 4 made on Friday November 6, 2009 at 22:11 |
anyhomeneeds Select Member |
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I've done a few of RTI's U1 remotes for situations like this, even for my 4 yo daughter. Only problem is, it's not a cheap route.
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