Turn your phone into a TV remote!
I’ve had a few emails asking about how I used my N95 as a TV remote. Well I’ll show you, its pretty straight forward.
The program itself is a piece of software developed for the Symbian OS S60, that the operating system for allot of the N Series Nokia phones (N95, N81 etc). The second thing you need to have on your phone is an IR Port (Infrared) built into the phone, this will act as your TV Remote ‘zapper’
The software that I used was a small program called irRemote, it costs about ~$19.50 and can be downloaded from various mobile phone software vendors.
There is a Free/Trial version available, what can also be downloaded from irRemote site.
Get that software installed onto your phone, you can usually do that via USB cable or bluetooth.
(If you don’t know how to upload & install, just drop a comment and i’ll write an article on how to)
You are nearly there in turning your mobile phone into a TV remote, once the software is installed, run the program and you will be given a list of different applications that you can take advantage of!
Things like Air Conditioners, Amps, CD / DVD players, HiFi, Home Theater, Satellite receivers, Radio Tuners, TVs, VCRs and many more! The software connects to their main database that has settings for thousands of different makes of applications!
Find your TV make / Model from the list of different models and download it, once its downloaded to your phone, you can then use it! Simply select your TV model and point the IR Port towards the TV and use the keys shown on the screen (see screenshot)
Compatible phones
- Nokia 5500
- Nokia 5700
- Nokia 6290
- Nokia E50
- Nokia E51
- Nokia E60
- Nokia E61
- Nokia E61i
- Nokia E62
- Nokia E65
- Nokia E70
- Nokia E90
- Nokia N71
- Nokia N73
- Nokia N75
- Nokia N80
- Nokia N92
- Nokia N93
- Nokia N95 (& 8GB)
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- February 9th
awesome article and well written. Thanks for the info! I’m going to give it a shot!
this is a cool software. but i think a similar free software is available
i used my nokia 6600 as remote control but its only work in some tv not all
thanks for the info
i would like to try thison a nokia 6275i but can’t figger how to install it i have a removable memorie card and have down loaded program to it any on this?
thanks in advance
There is another peice of software you can get for the phone also called FExplorer. Its like a file explorer that you can use for your phone and view all the sub folders on the phone. You can use that to install it onto your mobile.
Second thing is that there should as standard be a program called ‘Applications manager’ on the phone. This program ususaly picks up software and stuff that has and hasent been installed. Try executing the file via that method
how do i get an evesham tv to work on this
i want to try it first.
Will it work with Communicator 9210i..
Linda
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when i go onto the website to download new codes; I don’t know where to put the file on my phone. I have an n95. Can any one help?