Know How To Use Your PC As TV Remote Control

 

Nowadays there are bulk of software solutions available for almost all the TV brands in the market to use your PC as a TV remote control for at least the most popular ones and thus you can even check your manufacturer’s official website for such applications. In today’s trending world we are using our PC as a TV remote control in spite of being the use of a TV remote. For doing so, most of its platforms can be found on Windows Store and you can choose from both paid and free tools. For example, you can anytime try platforms like TV remote as it’s free, with in-app purchases for the respective TV brand which you are having.

But, as already mentioned before the best and the easy way in which you can use your PC as a remote control for TV is by buying and setting an external USB infrared transmitter/receiver. And here are steps which will help and guide you in doing so.

Manual Guide To Use Your PC As TV Remote Control

Given below steps will help and guide you to use your PC as a TV remote control.

• Step 1: At first, get the actual USB infrared transmitter/receiver cable – for example, choose USB-UIRT or Promixis PIR-1. After then Plug-in this USB cable within your laptop or PC.
• Step 2: Now, download and install a dedicated program which is designed to customize the USB infrared receiver/transmitter cable – you can either use any one of these that is Promixis NetRemote, or IRCommand2 Universal Remote Control, Promixis Girder.
• Step 3: Insert the respective USB CD along with the USB infrared transmitter/receiver cable and properly install it. Then after starting the remote app and follow on-screen prompts for setting up the remote connection.
• Step 4: Once done with all these then place the transmitter in front of the TV or in front of the device which you want to control from your PC. After then go to the remote app and choose the type of device that will be programmed from your PC.
• Step 5: Now the program will try to communicate with your TV and it will try to detect the virtual code which is being used by your TV. You can also enter the code manually if you can get from your device’s user guide.

So, that is how you can use your PC as a TV remote control. As you must have noticed, that there are two ways in which this can be achieved: first one by using a third-party app and second one by buying and setting up an external USB infrared transmitter/receiver cable.