That Remote Can Control The Home

By Christopher Nickson
January 11, 2008

SmartLabs debuts a device that can allow you to control compatible lighting and appliances with your home theatre remote.

Men have always understood the power of the remote. Possess it and you control the family’s viewing. But SmartLabs is introducing something that can exponentially increase the power of the remote in your hand. IRLInc, debuted at CES, is a plug-in interface that allows remote control of INSTEON-compatible (Infrared-to-INSTEON Translator) lighting and appliances using almost any universal home theater remote control. IRLInc is compatible with dozens of codes in most universal remotes and receives IR commands from a universal home theater remote through a wide-angle sensor that can be placed on top of the TV or DVR.The brains of the system are in a plug-in module that transmits the INSTEON signal onto the electrical wires of the home. "If you're one of those people who wants one remote for everything, ...

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