Tossed The T.V. but Kept the Remote? Here's how to NOT generate more E-Waste.

So what is this? Doesn't look like an API 👁️👁️

Tossed The TV Kept the Remote (TTVKTR) is a simple solution to the common problem of ending up with leftover Infrared(IR) Remotes from appliances long after the appliances are gone. They should be trivially easy to use with whatever you want, instead of ending up in landfills.

After finding an old Apple TV Remote in the archives (my attic) i realized there wasn't any quick and easy way to let me use it on my HTPC.


Now you see where the name came from...

This isn't as niche a problem as I've made it sound though, those "presentation clickers" that you can buy for waaay too much money online are the same thing. Except you've just added one more "thing that turns into e-waste the moment you lose the dongle" to your collection.

So, armed with a copilot subscription, I had to take things into my own hands.....

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Custom Keybindings UI ⌨️

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So you can bind a button to:

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Win+R -> Spotify.exe -> Enter

I also get a quick drag-to-edit layout that I can use to have a better visual representation of the button on the remote I'm actually trying to map.

and based keyboards, AFAIK this is the only solution that removes that last bit of friction.

So some time ago, I pulled an

Then I saw the Github Finish-Up-A-Thon post and it reminded me of someone who has many incomplete weekends projects that could be complete if they just put in a few more hours, so here I am.

Eh.. I'll do it later (The Before)

Let's just say once I got the bare minimum working, I got.... distracted.

After

Adding features, sliders and toggles in the UI was equally simple, some of the firmware functions were also just as trivial and refactoring was a breeze.

The remote that was headed for a landfill now has a purpose again, not bad for a weekend project and some tokens.

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