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Old 09-22-2007, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by WanderingMinstrel View Post
I've been happy with Novii Deluxe. It works at 10-12 feet just as well as the stock remote. Novii support was very helpful during my learning curve. They came up with what I needed to know to get my TV and my DVD/VHS player-recorder to respond -- all from the same codebase. And then a couple of days later, they emailed me an improved codebase that someone came up with on their own. (Just giving credit where it's due.)

Using the 6700 as a remote, to be honest, is not the most practical idea. But if simple things amuse you, as they do me, it's kind of fun.
I'm using Novii Deluxe also. It is a nice little toy and I use it to control my TV capture card in my computer (which it works well for).

The main problem with this app isn't a fault of Novii at all, however, the IR bulb in the Apache/PPC-6700 seems sort of weak. It works well at 4-5 feet but no further. So that is a limitation if you're not controlling items that are somewhat close to you.

Just a heads up...
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