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Default Remote Control Check

On Oct 22, 3:44*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Oct 22, 3:37*pm, Duff wrote:

Wow. *I'm impressed.
*I just learned that you can check your remote controls IR output
using a digital camera. *


You just point your remote control at the digital camera such as a
standard webcam or a standard cell phone camera and push the button.
*It shows up on mine as a white light like an led light when looking
at the image on my viewer screen, yet when I point the remote at my
eyeball, I see nothing.


And I would want to this...why?


To make sure a problem remote is working? Just a wild guess.