Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, IR blasters have become a standard part of smart TV systems, but it's not always clear just what these devices ...

The TV-B-Gone is a well known piece of kit in hacker circles: just point it at a noisy TV in a public space, hit the button, and one of the hundreds of IR remote codes for “Power Off” that it blinks ...

Turns out, dumb devices were never the problem.

So, I purchased a home 2 years ago and the previous owner installed a surround system in the ceiling and wall mounted a TV. All of these cables run into a closet into an adjacent bedroom. Finally ...

There are lots of smart home systems that will let you blast your older dumb appliances with infrared to control them.

First-person view of someone aiming a TV remote at a smart TV - Proxima Studio/Shutterstock In recent years, IR blasters have become a standard part of smart TV systems, but it's not always clear just ...

In recent years, IR blasters have become a standard part of smart TV systems, but it's not always clear just what these devices are or do. For starters, the IR in the name stands for infrared, which ...