This was when I discovered Samsung TVs have a menu option to scan for viruses, which I still think is hilarious.
The TV was angled so that its IR sensor was aimed towards the bathroom door. I always assumed that it was just interference from the bathroom lights starting up just happening to make the same IR pattern as the ON button on the remote.
I once hooked a TV remote up to a logic analyser to have a look and here's how the on/off signal looked for this brand: http://olivernash.org/2010/01/03/the-telly-terminator/rc6-6-...
Some further details here: http://olivernash.org/2010/01/03/the-telly-terminator/
Of course it's still possible!
After two instances of jokers starting to stream something over it I just left it unplugged when I wasn't using it. My bad for introducing an insecure device onto the hotel wifi rather than setting up my own little network, but I was lazy.
> Let others control your cast media
> Show a notification on all Android devices connected to your Wi-Fi and let them control media casting from DEVICENAME
It’s come in handy, because our neighbors sometimes accidentally choose our Apple TV instead of theirs apparently. The only thing that happens on our side is that the TV turns on and displays the code, but our neighbors don’t see the code and likely realize their mistake then.
P.S. Will we have horror movies based on Internet and IoTs, that would be very exciting.
There’s Demon Seed from 1977, an actual horror movie about too-smart devices.
The concept was then revisited in 1984 as a romantic comedy, “Electric Dreams”.
And home automation features briefly in Back to the Future II and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.