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Adam Dalliance
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I have installed some new lights, and they each come with an identical-looking but apparently differently encoded remote controls. The remotes control only one lamp each.

Not infra-red as I had assumed until just now it seems. Signal hasno trouble passing through walls. Surprising.

Anyone know if there's a way to capture the signals from those remotes and install some USB device on my computer that can repeat them?

I figured there would be when I assumed they were infra-red remotes, coz surely a infra-red flasher/recorder is easy, but now I suspect it's probably some encoded encrypted wifi-band signal or something that there's no hope of intercepting.

The life-span of these lamps seems likely to be limited by the life-span of these remote controls then too.

Presumably a replacement control can't be found if they're all uniquely encoded and not backupable.

Adam Dalliance
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Seems likely their reply was either passed through ChatGPT to translate or else just answered by AI robots.

They asked for model-numbers, so maybe not all hope is lost.

Andrew Feeney
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@pre This is a tangent, but should the phrase be “backupable” or “backable up”? 🤔

Adam Dalliance
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@andrewfeeney I like backupable but I nearly hyphenated it.

Andrew Feeney
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@pre It has to be backupable, because the verb has become unhyphenated. “To backup”. But then people still separate it. “Did you back it up?”