Chapter 9Voice IR Control
Smart voice assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant integrate with a variety of modern home-automation equipment. Network-enabled smart bulbs, outlets, TVs, and entertainment systems that connect to your home network often allow these smart assistants to integrate and control their functionality by voice.
However, there’s a world of mostly legacy and low-end consumer electronics that are not network-capable. Instead, they offer the ability to wirelessly interact with the product’s controls via InfraRed (IR) signals. This technology has been in the hands of average consumers since the 1970s and is still in use today. IR remote controls are dumb in that they have no confirmation that the signals they transmit ...
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