Programming my TV remote

Been a developer for going on 22 years, programming everything from TRS-80’s to IBM Mainframes, to mini computers, to Java, to .Net – and everything in between. Today I met my greatest challenge.

My TV remote control.

In all fairness, the MX-500 is truly an incredible device. It will control a ton of devices, and even learns how to support the ones it doesn’t support natively. It has macros, favorites, and will do the most complicated things (like turn on the TV, receiver, DVD player, set the sound properly, and hit play on the DVD) with the push of a single button. It’s just a huge programming job.