Making calls has become an afterthought with smartphones. They’ve evolved to send emails, stream content, and visit websites. You can even use your smartphone as a remote control for TVs, home theater, and home automation systems. Check out some interesting remote control apps that make controlling your home theater system with your phone easier.
The 10 Best iOS and Android Home Theater Remote Control Apps
Logitech combines IR and Wi-Fi control hardware with iOS and Android apps to control multiple home theater components and other smart home devices like lights, thermostats, and locks. The Harmony Control app lets you control devices individually or combine them into “Activities.” For example, you can program the app to “Watch TV.” It will turn on the TV and Blu-ray Disc player, turn off the lights, and close the blinds via compatible Harmony products.
The app accesses the Harmony Remote Control Database, which contains codes for over 270,000 consumer electronics, home theater, and smart home devices.
The Amazon Alexa app is one of the most versatile remote apps available. Whether you download the Alexa app to your iOS device or the Alexa app for your Android phone, you can pair it with the Amazon Echo and some third-party devices and enable any of several Alexa skills from there. Using voice commands, you can manage content and perform some basic controls for compatible TVs, home theater receivers, multi-room audio systems, ambient devices, locks, and more.
