Dear dCS community, while I love my Vivaldi DAC, I am growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of options to control it - I am talking about compatibility with universal remote controls, iOT, home automation software etc which in this day and age are becoming ubiquitous. I have a rather comple…

Is this useful to you? And if not, can you explain why? dCS Remote Control Codes User Manual February 2016 https://dcsaudio.zendesk.com/hc/en-gb/article_attachments/4404384740242

Most universal remote controls support either the raw or Pronto formats. You can’t load RC5 on a Harmony, a Philips Pronto, an Unfolded Circle remote, a Sofabaton etc. I am not sure what platforms support RC5, apart from some DIY projects. I think there is a Arduino kit which can do RC5 and I suppo…

[image] reven6e: If you want exposure, young customers, if you want to appeal to a new generation, you have to think about the new ways your products can be integrated into this new connected home concept where automation and IOT are a thing. Clear. Vivaldi is (getting) old, and Rossini and B…

Appreciate that. But they are still on sale for 40K a pop. And the remotes from that era are no longer available. They went through the trouble of releasing Apex, they might as well make an effort to bring them on the Home Assistant platform for instance. A integration for HA or a IR data set tha…

Thank you for both pieces of information. Regarding ProntoEdit Pro, it is of course another example of an extinct platform from another age, which is likely only going to work properly on a legacy 32bit Windows computer. The pain and costs of running VMs aside, I think the installer is available o…

No idea, sorry. Phil or James may be able to help.

[image] reven6e: no current remote control platform that I know of works with RC5 codes Actually, the RC5 format is extremely well documented, and practically every high-end Audio manufacturer uses RC5 for their IR Remotes. I would imagine it’d be fairly trivial for any company developing a …

Anup, UC is on the third generation of remotes and frankly I think they prioritise hardware over software. The few integrations available on their platform mainly come from enthusiasts who do voluntary work and, consequently, there are still plenty of issues and bugs to be ironed out. Also support f…

I totally get not wanting to go down the Custom route with C4 or Crestron or any of those guys. So, no argument from me on that. However, w.r.t Unfolded though, they’re building a “Universal” IR Remote in 2025, to not support RC5 codes seems rather strange, especially considering pretty much all of…