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I regret not backing the kickstarter for this device, considering how well received it’s been. I had planned to and pulled out at the last minute
I did. But in the end the use I got out of this device is not much actually.
I have one and I like toying around with it. Having a lil poke here and there.
I like this device despite not having a use for it. It’s an interesting combination of tools and can see potential with penetration testing and the like. I’m curious what other people’s take is, especially if they’ve been hands on with it.
I bought one not really knowing what I’d use it for.
- So far the bluetooth keyboard has been the most useful.
- I have a Co2 sensor on the GPIO for monitoring air quality.
- Been using it to try and locate IR codes for a sound bar I lost the remote to.
- I used it for remote shutter release on my DLSR.
Device seems well built and there’s a huge community with lots of development so always something else to use it for.
It’s been nice to copy hotel keys when I’m traveling. It really goes to show how easy it is.
But most of the time I just use it to emulate amiibos.
I also have a terrible remote for a ceiling fan. It eats through those super short batteries that are in garage door openers even if it’s never used. I recorded those sub ghz and just use the flipper now.
If you have enough of those wireless fans, think about getting a bond bridge (check they’re supported first though). I have mine for $99 and it’s controlling every ceiling fan+light in the house, hooked up to homeassistant locally (no cloud involved).
How do you emulate devices? Point the remote at the flipper and it reads the signal? Do you set up a ‘fan remote’ module and program every button one by one?
If so, that actually sounds awesome. I don’t have a tech heavy house, but sitting down for a movie requires 3 remotes (TV, sound bar, light dimmer). Being able to quickly do all 3 on one device would be great. Maybe not worth $170 alone, but I bet I could find many more uses.
Depends on the device. But generally you put the flipper into capture mode, then run an action on whatever you want to capture (i.e. press a button on the remote). If its IR you have to aim it at the flipper, if its sub-ghz you just hold the two near enough.
Get a universal remote for your home theater. Flipper isn’t really that usable and not enough buttons for that task. It can, but you’ll be much happier with a Logitech Harmony.
The knuckleheads who overspent on our last house left a home theater system with a URC brand universal remote. Once I waded through some incredibly unfriendly forums (apparently the company does not distribute direct to consumers) and finally found an old but usable version of the software, it took a couple of hours to learn it well enough to get everything set up, and I like it better than the Harmony we used to have. When we moved again, I left the projector and speakers, but brought the URC and receiver with us.
Harmony is EOL these days as well.
Any worthwhile alternatives? I have a SofaBaton remote. It’s… ok…
Honestly I’m going down a lot of HDMI-CEC magic and a Broadlink with Hone Assistant to make up the rest. Perhaps a zigbee button remote triggering some HA calls?
This makes waiting for mine to arrive even harder. Can’t wait!
