| RedEye is a hardware
device and software application that turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a
universal remote control.
After
you install the RedEye application (a free download from iTunes) on your iPhone
or iPod touch, you can communicate with the RedEye device over Wi-Fi. Then the RedEye device sends out
infrared signals to control your equipment. Because the RedEye device is in the
same room as your equipment, you don’t have to be. Instead, you can
control your living room stereo from the kitchen, turn off the TV upstairs or
control your whole house audio & video system from anywhere on the
Wi-Fi RedEye network.
Macro
functions are Activity based:
RedEye
supports macros in a couple of ways. First, the software is set up to be
“activity-based” meaning you define a set of activities
(Watch TV, Listen to CD, etc). Each activity has certain launch actions, as
well as other shutdown actions (launch actions might include turning on the TV
and tuning it to a certain input; shutdown is probably just turning it off).
Here’s the great thing about the iPhone’s touchscreen: each
activity also has its own customizable button layout, so you have just what you
need for what you are doing at the moment.
The
other way that we support macros is within those activity layouts for the
buttons themselves. Each button can be set up to play back a number of
commands. For example, if channel 517 is one of your favorites, you can create
a macro button for that channel and even give it an icon corresponding to that
television network. |
