How to Find Missing Remotes

[TTCUSM]

Namaste Everyone,

A few days ago, I was looking for a missing remote control, and I had an idea.

Maybe we should add a button to TV sets that you can press whenever your remote control goes missing. The TV set will then send a signal to your remote, causing it to flash for a few seconds. This should make remote controls easier to find.

 

[Koldo]

Good idea. However, while at it, why not add a sound effect to it too? This way, if for some reason the remote control is out of sight you can still have a clue as to where it is.

 

[Draka]

It's a very basic thing. Cordless phones have had such functions on them for quite some time. It really would make sense to have locator buttons on other things such as TVs, satellite/cable boxes, stereos, and so on.

 

[Panda]

It's a very basic thing. Cordless phones have had such functions on them for quite some time. It really would make sense to have locator buttons on other things such as TVs, satellite/cable boxes, stereos, and so on.

What about on children?

 

[Rakhel]

Done
#1 Lost Key Finder & Remote Control Locator

 

[Valjean]

But what do you do when you lose your key ringer?

 

[Quagmire]

It's what we get for calling them "remotes" in the first place. Should have named them "right-in-front-of-you"s.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

When I was a kid, my family's first VCR had a good solution to this problem: the remote was connected to the VCR by a cable.

(and yes, I'm old, whippersnappers. )

 

[HonestJoe]

It's a very basic thing. Cordless phones have had such functions on them for quite some time. It really would make sense to have locator buttons on other things such as TVs, satellite/cable boxes, stereos, and so on.

It's a simply thing for cordless phones because they already send signals to the handsets. A standard TV etc. is only designed to receive signals from their remote, not send. Remotes also use infra-red signals which require line-of-sight rather than the radio frequencies used by cordless phones.

It would be possible of course, but it would require additional hardware in both the TV and the remote. It's less trouble for people not to be idiots who loose a remote control in the first place.

 

[Koldo]

When I was a kid, my family's first VCR had a good solution to this problem: the remote was connected to the VCR by a cable.

(and yes, I'm old, whippersnappers. )

To think they had the solution ever since the beginning.

 

[lunamoth]

I had all of my remotes chipped in case they got lost.

 

[Vinayaka]

I just ask my spouse. She can always find it.

 

[McBell]

I had all of my remotes chipped in case they got lost.

I just ask my spouse. She can always find it.

I used to throw the freaking remote in the trash.
Never even put the batteries in it.

I had to stop because now a days without the remote, you cannot even use the stupid tv/vcr/dvd player/stereo receiver...

and some people actually have to wonder why Americans are overweight?