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My most pleasant surprise was that the B-Unit for detecting the flashes worked over remote desktop. I figured however it was detecting the frequency would not translate, but it works perfect fine even over a so-so quality remote desktop connection. Sort of makes you wonder how sophisticated it really is...

And this is not just once- I used it repeatedly over many years.

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Yes, I primarily use mine over remote desktop for the direct line to BBG and in-house programs need more power than a laptop provides. Definitely have had to adjust contrast settings more than I would like but nature of the beast I guess.

It works well over remote desktop... unless you have a screen tinter like f.lux. I didn't expect changing the light color to break the flash detection, but it does.

I'll pass the feedback along. I suppose it just hasn't come up before during testing. If you have an active login please go through the normal channel and ask help to enter request to support f.lux and I can help connect it to the right people.

I have mixed feelings about Mike but I have to say Bloomberg's (the company's) commitment to customer service is seriously impressive.

You get what you pay for. It's definitely part of their competitive edge.

That's due to the way it is designed. It's meant to be forgiving to an extent to allow for remote screen situations.

Considering Bloomberg absolutely doesn't want you to be able to use it remotely I find that hard to believe... if you use windows remote desktop into a machine running the bloomberg terminal it can detect that and will not function.

I remote in to my machine running BBG on the trading desk from my office all the time with no difficulties. Also remote into my office desktop from home and log into BBG that way as well.

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