The collection of IR (infra red) transmitters in a living room is annoying. It would be desirable to replace them with one universal device.
A lot of products for that already exist but are not really successful. Drawbacks of many of these products:
Complicated to setup, not intuitive button press sequences no display as guide and confirmation
Battery out. Result: Setup lost
Huge database but the devices you own are still not listed
Dependency with some commercial company, program or server
This project tries to make it different and hopefully better.
Instead of developing a new IR device it focuses on using a smart phone or any other device as tablet PC that has WLAN and a modern web browser. Also this idea is not new various projects exist.
This project is well working but still under development. It is intended to release all, PCB design and all software including the one on AVR processor under the Gnu license.