Gear4 UnityRemote Universal Remote Control for iPod/iPhone/iPad

Out of the box and within 30 minutes I had my entire home theatre system up and running on my IPhone. SIX components all fully controlled from my IPhone. In one word ... INCREDIBLE! Gear 4 has released me from Remote Control Hell. Thank you Gear 4, thank you.I have no hesitation what so ever in recommending this product. Easy to download the app from the ITunes store, easy to configure and set up the various devices, easy to tailor the remotes to your own tastes AND once you have the configuration setup on one IPhone you can transfer the configuration to as many other IPhones, IPads or IPods as you want. Again, Incredible.I have the Unity remote app installed on each family member's IPhone and on our IPad. All work flawlessly!The manual was easy to read and setting up the Unity Remote app to operate the devices was very intuitive and easy to follow.This thing is a bargain at twice the price.Six Stars out of five, right across the board.I have read other reviews that talked about the remote turning off when the IPhone/ IPad / IPod go out of range and then having to turn it back on when you come back in the room later. This I find to not be an inconvenience at all. Well worth the power savings on the battery life. One flick of the button and seconds later you have full control of your home theatre system. LOVE IT!

While the concept is great, the system suffers from too many bugs to be useful:- Bugs you can live with:- Does not reconnect smoothly to iPhone as advertised, you have to go into the iPhone Bluetooth settings every time you start to use it.- Many mislabeled keys in default key maps. You can fix these one at a time, but it is tedious.- "Standard" action templates (e.g. "watch TV") don't work (at least for any of my equipment). You have to create custom templates instead.- "Use device" setting when creating a creating a custom template is buggy: this option is supposed to make it easy to specify which devices should be powered on for an action. However, the option sends a "toggle power on/off" rather than a "power on" command. The workaround is to not use this setting, instead manually enter "power on" actions for each device.- Bug that is a deal-breaker:- The iPhone UnityRemote app constantly crashes. It crashes when programming, it crashes simply when being used. (Yes, I reinstalled the latest version of the software as of 2/5/2011.) After successfully defining certain actions, executing them would consistently crash in the same way -- a screen saying "cleaning up" appears with a spinning ball and hangs forever.After putting many hours into attempting to use my UnityRemote, I've put it away, until some future day (if it ever arrives) when the software works!

I tried to use this for a few weeks with an iPod Touch and an iPad and found that there two main problems. One is that the battery life on the iPod Touch/iPad plummets when using the device, such that I couldn't make it though a full day of normal use.The second problem was the deal-breaker for me. The programmers have chosen to display only nine buttons on any given screen, so I was having to constantly spend time switching through multiple screens to perform a task that required only a single button push on my Logitech One remote.Even worse, the app has an iPad-specific app that still only has nine huge buttons on the 10" screen, when there is room for several dozen.I took the battery out of the device and it now sits on a shelf being a decorative paperweight. If the manufacturer revises the software to allow more buttons on a screen, I may revisit the usefulness of the product. Nice idea, unsatisfactory execution.Update: Database of devices is very limited. I have an HDMI switcher that isn't in their database, and all attempts to have the device learn the codes for switching inputs have met with failure. My Logitech remote learned the codes in seconds. So the device is still a paperweight.I'm not sure this device is being supported any more.

I can control all my AV equipment from downstairs, best of all using the graphical interface of the Ipad! It works great with Iphone too. The 360 IR works well, great range, can place the unit pretty much anywhere, not just in front of the equipment!Unfortunately, I lost all my programing in the Ipad so I had to re-initialize. I guess next time I'll have to save the setting with a sync! (I have to look into that)Great buy... very happy!update:I have set-up my AV once again, just how I like it, and uploaded my setup to my Ipod Touch and also to my Iphone! So now, I have all 3 devices (incl. my Ipad) that can control the remote... and not afraid of loosing the settings again (it's like having 2 backups!). Only one device can connect to the remote at once though... haven't figured out how to connect multiple devices to it! So far so good :)