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):

**xwhatsit** · 4th May 2007, 19:05

Originally Posted by Colapop

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.

**lb99** · 4th May 2007, 19:15

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

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

bose sterios have radio remotes, work thru walls, from outside ect.... so it can be done

I recon its a fucn good idea, I've got like 6 remotes on top of my tv now, even the PC has one

**Drum** · 4th May 2007, 19:19

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.

**BuFfY** · 4th May 2007, 19:43

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.

**Swoop** · 4th May 2007, 20:10

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....

**BuFfY** · 4th May 2007, 20:12

Originally Posted by Swoop

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???