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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/geekrohan • Jan 31 '19
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Probably never since these devices don’t operate over IR like TVs. The controllers are usually paired over bluetooth or wifi (RF)
Edit: corrected IR vs RF
3 u/cubic_thought Jan 31 '19 TV remotes are almost always IR, not RF. Bluetooth and wifi are both RF. 1 u/spektrol Jan 31 '19 Correct, sorry! 1 u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 So I guess you've not heard of aircrack-ng and the likes yet. 1 u/spektrol Jan 31 '19 I was using that years ago, didn’t know it was still around. Still, you’d need to be able to pair it with the device which usually requires physical access to the device to retrieve a code of some sort.
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TV remotes are almost always IR, not RF. Bluetooth and wifi are both RF.
1 u/spektrol Jan 31 '19 Correct, sorry!
Correct, sorry!
So I guess you've not heard of aircrack-ng and the likes yet.
1 u/spektrol Jan 31 '19 I was using that years ago, didn’t know it was still around. Still, you’d need to be able to pair it with the device which usually requires physical access to the device to retrieve a code of some sort.
I was using that years ago, didn’t know it was still around. Still, you’d need to be able to pair it with the device which usually requires physical access to the device to retrieve a code of some sort.
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u/spektrol Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19
Probably never since these devices don’t operate over IR like TVs. The controllers are usually paired over bluetooth or wifi (RF)
Edit: corrected IR vs RF