RedEye RE0002 Universal Remote Control System for iOS and PC - Black

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Price: $399.99   

Product Feature

• Capable of multi-zone control (with multiple units installed)
• Supports many different controllers (PC, iPhone, iPad) - all at the same time
• Free integrated channel guide
• Extensive infrared code library
• Infrared out: 3.5mm, 5V

Product Description

RedEye connects to your home Wi-Fi network, allowing anyone in your house with a personal computer, iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to control your home theater. RedEye automatically synchronizes information across all these devices, so you can pick up right where the last person left off. Now in an updated design, RedEye includes an infrared out port so you can easily stow it in a cabinet and still control your TV.

RedEye RE0002 Universal Remote Control System for iOS and PC - Black Review

The concept for this is genius - execution is (almost) terminally flawed by the limited networking options. I did come up with a solution that's workable for me, but it's less than ideal.

Let me start by saying I'm a pretty tech-savvy guy. I have a fairly advanced network in my house - a business-class firewall, and separate "public" and "private" wireless networks. Configuring all that was no problem for me, but the RedEye just did't work in my environment.

Issue #1- I insist on "reasonable" wireless security. The RedEye will only connect to networks that use WPA or no security. WPA is not a good choice these days - the only thing worse is no security at all. Wireless routers have an option for "WPA2 Mixed", which allows devices to connect with the best security option they can. That SHOULD have allow my other dozen wireless devices to still use WPA2, and just negotiate down to WPA for the RedEye. But that did't work, so my only option would have been to bring the entire wireless network down to WPA only - not acceptable to me.

Issue #2- To expand the wireless coverage in my house, I use Wireless Access Points that connect to my firewall. Unfortunately, that was another problem I couldn't get past. I could see the RedEye was connecting to the network, and I could even use a web browser on my iPad to connect to the web admin console. But the RedEye app could not see the device, so connecting it to a Wireless Access Point doesn't seem to work either.

Issue #3- I conceded "full" network connectivity, so I thought I would try just using the ad-hoc, peer-to-peer wifi option to connect my iPad to the RedEye. While that worked, the RedEye app would take 30 seconds or more to find the device. Plus, my iPad was constantly switching itself back to my home network, probably because the ad-hoc RedEye connection had no Internet connectivity. That meant I was constantly changing the wifi settings on my iPad.

My solution... I used an extra wireless router to create a "RedEye Wifi" network. It has no security enabled, but it's not connected to the Internet so I'm not concerned. To control my AV equipment, I switch my iPad to connect to the "RedEye Wifi", and then open the RedEye app. It connects to the RedEye device in a couple seconds every time. This was the fastest, and most secure option in my opinion.

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