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Replacement for Philips Pronto
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Replacement for Philips Pronto
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Post 1 made on February 21, 2021 at 13:03
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I've been using the Philips Pronto and Marantz RC9500 for at least a decade. It's becoming a real pain to program now as I can't even use Windows 10 anymore and must run ProntoEdit under Win XP in an Oracle VM Box.

Does anyone know of a modern day remote that lets me have a touch screen where I can program/display a button to jump to a preset TV channel? It blows my mind that no one has taken the Pronto idea and made a modernized version of it.

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Post 2 made on February 22, 2021 at 12:58
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Look at TouchControl. This uses iPhone/iPad as the platform. This is a very different approach from ProntoEdit, however, you may be able to recycle some of your ProntoScript. You'll need a 3rd party IR emitter, such as Global Caché. IP control is intrinsic.
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Post 3 made on May 17, 2021 at 15:07
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Pronto configurations are stored in XML and I did spend a little time analyzing them to be able to modify them directly.

It does surprise me that no-one has written a phone app to emulate a pronto and send IR to a BT blaster.

If I had the time I'd probably give it a go

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Post 4 made on September 17, 2024 at 19:15
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I WISH you would....
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Allonis's SmartRemote meets your needs including on screen TV Guide. System is also usable via smartphone and tablet and PC and Mac etc. Any modern webbrowser equipped hardware (including Samsung "smart" refrigerators :) )
Allonis.com
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