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These are neat, but the whole dongle thing kills it for me.

I've been playing with a RedEye remote http://thinkflood.com/products/redeye/ on and off since they first shipped. The product has come a long way in terms of working out bugs and adding functionality. With the added bonus that since it's a dedicate device with Wifi, I can now send IR signals from my Indigo home automation system to the RedEye with a little bit of applescript hackery.

Isn't it a little (over)expensive? It costs more than an iPod Touch, even.

Most decent home theater stuff tends to be on the high-side of the price curve, especially when you get into speciality stuff like this.

For what is most likely a $20BOM, yes it's expensive. Compared to other multi-function remotes, and especially when compared to other IR devices that enable you to interact with them programmatically, it's cheap.

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