On Oct 22, 11:18*pm, aemeijers wrote:
Red Green wrote:
aemeijers wrote in
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charlie wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

... 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?

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when swmbo throws the remote at you and bounces it off the wall, you
can check that it's still working.

Wouldn't it be simpler to point it at the TV?

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aem sends...

If remote not working is it becasue the romote is broke or is it because
the TV is not responding to a good remote?

Other than maybe needing to windex the fingerprints and cigarette smoke
off the little eye on the front, the failure rate of the TV end of the
remote system is close to zero. And if the remote just went flying, the
odds of the TV end failing at that exact same time are too low to even
consider.


Who said anything about "flying remotes"? It's a simple test for the
remote, period.