View Full Version : Remote control buzzer..?
Colapop
4th May 2007, 18:49
You know how you can never find the remote? For the TV or the Stereo or some shit you got... why don't they have a buzzer or a tone thingy like the phone - you know the old cordless that you got, you push the button on the base and it makes noise from wherever it is? Be fucken good if the TV remote, or other ones, had that...
Yep - I can't find the damn thing...
The Pastor
4th May 2007, 18:53
get up off ur ass and push the button?
Colapop
4th May 2007, 18:58
WTF??!?!!? That's blasphemy...
skelstar
4th May 2007, 19:01
Stop being a lazy cnut, and if you can't then use one of these (make sure its long enough):
<img src="http://www.buriedinthenoise.com/imgs/stick11.jpg">
xwhatsit
4th May 2007, 19:05
You know how you can never find the remote? For the TV or the Stereo or some shit you got... why don't they have a buzzer or a tone thingy like the phone - you know the old cordless that you got, you push the button on the base and it makes noise from wherever it is? Be fucken good if the TV remote, or other ones, had that...
Yep - I can't find the damn thing...
I know you're not being serious, but...
What's the equivalent of the base station you want to use? The TV?
But most importantly, remote controls don't work like a cordless phone. They use light (ultra violet) in a line-of-sight communication. Furthermore, it's one-way. The TV can't send anything back to the remote control. So this is a problem -- how does the TV signal to the remote control that it's to start beeping, and also if your remote control is pointing away from the TV, or is hidden behind some object, you're screwed.
You could use a duplex radio like a cordless phone uses, but ever noticed how big the battery is on a cordless phone? And how you have to charge it all the time? Radio is expensive, both to construct as well as expensive in terms of power usage. Furthermore, UV is on-demand; when you push the button, the remote only then starts sending. Radio, to work as you want here, would need to be an always-on system. So your remote is draining batteries at a rapid rate 24 hours a day.
Bluetooth and a large lithium battery could work, but then you'd want a `remote base station' where you could store it overnight, and that would be A) ridiculously expensive for a simple remote and B) a pain in the arse to live with. Also, the fact you have a base station where you leave the remote means you're only half as likely to lose it in the first place.
Colapop
4th May 2007, 19:06
Fuck you! I am too being serious - I reckon it'll be a bloody good selling point...
(After properly reading your post) There are plenty of clever buggers that could put something together. And you could put the remote onto a base every now and then. You wouldn't use the 'buzzer' all the time. I reckon it'd be a good idea.
I know you're not being serious, but...
What's the equivalent of the base station you want to use? The TV?
But most importantly, remote controls don't work like a cordless phone. They use light (ultra violet) in a line-of-sight communication. Furthermore, it's one-way. The TV can't send anything back to the remote control. So this is a problem -- how does the TV signal to the remote control that it's to start beeping, and also if your remote control is pointing away from the TV, or is hidden behind some object, you're screwed.
You could use a duplex radio like a cordless phone uses, but ever noticed how big the battery is on a cordless phone? And how you have to charge it all the time? Radio is expensive, both to construct as well as expensive in terms of power usage. Furthermore, UV is on-demand; when you push the button, the remote only then starts sending. Radio, to work as you want here, would need to be an always-on system. So your remote is draining batteries at a rapid rate 24 hours a day.
Bluetooth and a large lithium battery could work, but then you'd want a `remote base station' where you could store it overnight, and that would be A) ridiculously expensive for a simple remote and B) a pain in the arse to live with. Also, the fact you have a base station where you leave the remote means you're only half as likely to lose it in the first place.
blah, blah, blah:bleh:
bose sterios have radio remotes, work thru walls, from outside ect.... so it can be done :Pokey:
I recon its a fucn good idea, I've got like 6 remotes on top of my tv now, even the PC has one
How about a long piece of string? Tie the remote to the tellie, then you'll never lose it again.
You could also try handful of small pebbles. Leave a trail from the TV to the remote. Problem solved.
paturoa
4th May 2007, 19:36
A buddy used had one of those whistle key ring things, duct taped to his remote.
Wasn't there an inventors thread the other day?? - go post there! good idea.
Mr. Peanut
4th May 2007, 19:39
Use the force.
Wasn't there an idea like this in a movie a few years ago? Something with Ben Stiller I think... But it was a beeper thing to detect where the remote was... or could be used for keys. He lost the beeper. Pretty obvious!
But yes... loosing remotes is not fun! As they generally have a lot more functions on them!
Kendog
4th May 2007, 19:46
Once someone has built this can they make a buzzer for golf balls please.
Would be a lot of money in that I think.
Have you checked the fridge?
Serious. When you get another beer, one hand holds the fridge door open, SO the other hand must have had the remote and let it go to pick up the new beer.
That's my theory....
Have you checked the fridge?
Serious. When you get another beer, one hand holds the fridge door open, SO the other hand must have had the remote and let it go to pick up the new beer.
That's my theory....
You have to get up to get your own beer???
You have to get up to get your own beer???
A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do.
The Pastor
4th May 2007, 20:47
You have to get up to get your own beer???
He hasnt got a maid like cam has.
Tv is for suckas. just tape the remote to your chair. SORTED.
Or buy lots of remotes and put them everywhere that way you'll never have look for one again.
Fuck
he told you I am his maid!
Arsehole!
Stop being a lazy cnut, and if you can't then use one of these (make sure its long enough):
<img src="http://www.buriedinthenoise.com/imgs/stick11.jpg">
Not so stupid, i visited a Students flat in Mt Cook (Wellington) who had exactley that for their channel changer thingy....:yes:
Colapop
4th May 2007, 21:17
I don't watch much TV. But I do want to watch rugby. And I don't give a flying fuck how many of you haters don't like rugby - I do. The boy thinks he a man and likes to hold the remote (to keep it away from his sister) then if he leaves the room hides it and forgets where he hid it.... dumbarse...
Stickchick
4th May 2007, 21:32
I don't watch much TV. But I do want to watch rugby. And I don't give a flying fuck how many of you haters don't like rugby - I do. The boy thinks he a man and likes to hold the remote (to keep it away from his sister) then if he leaves the room hides it and forgets where he hid it.... dumbarse...
Ahh like father like son :yes:
... why don't they have a buzzer or a tone thingy like the phone - you know the old cordless that you got, you push the button on the base and it makes noise from wherever it is? Be fucken good if the TV remote, or other ones, had that...
You can get them! Dunno where from in NZ, but I saw them advertised somewhere. Jaycar?
You buy a detector and a pack of 30 tiny RFID tags (the same as dog microchips) and stick / glue the tags on whatever you want to find. Each tag has a different identification / frequency, so you can search for a certain item by keying it into the detector. I seem to remember it has a range of 70 feet? It gives you a direction and a rough range, although the range relies on signal strength which varies of course according to what's in the way.
So cool!
The US government "allegedly" is trialling a system in Washington where they have RFID detectors scattered everywhere through a few city blocks. They can detect the RFID tags on the jacket you bought (cos stores use them as anti-theft devices) and correlate that serial number with the credit card that bought it and of course then they know it's you and can track you everywhere.
There's some thing in London too I think, where someone has worked out how to make a surveillance net from clothing store RFID detectors. It was on tech news websites a few month ago.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!
But you'll never lose your keys again.
But don't lose the detector.
Colapop
4th May 2007, 21:38
Yeah but that's not the remote making a noise... that's like trying to track the damn thing... like fucking discovery channel or some shit...
My Father is a smart man he has a pocket in his lazyboy that holds the remote and watch out anyone that removed it!!!! Bet he is glad the Anti Smacking law didn't come in
Just as well we're enlightened these days...
I had something similar many a moon ago, but it worked by detecting high pitch noises, such as whistles. You stuck it on your remote then whistled when you lost it (or squealed like an infracted KBer). I had one on my car keyring as well.
You know...
I had something similar ...
Look what I found on Trademe (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/Safety/auction-98584006.htm?p=7) for $10.95 buynow.
I am going to buy one right now.
imdying
7th May 2007, 09:10
So your remote is draining batteries at a rapid rate 24 hours a day.What you want is every side table, coffee table, arm rest, etc, to be a recharging service :) Shouldn't be too long now they reckon...
ManDownUnder
7th May 2007, 09:20
Shit - I came in here hoping it was about internet controlled vibrators or something...
oh yeah - good idea colypop... no seriously - good idea.
NotaGoth
7th May 2007, 09:46
Stop being a lazy cnut, and if you can't then use one of these (make sure its long enough):
<img src="http://www.buriedinthenoise.com/imgs/stick11.jpg">
haha.....
those things where you whistle are good... Though ours was going off everytime I spoke.. so it eventually got biffed...:shutup:
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