“Not a single remote control” or “How to turn an android-smartphone into a remote control for LG Smart TV”

    Not so long ago, I smashed a post-comparison of Smart TV systems on the hub , in which Alaunquirie wrote about our unusual remote control, which he had a chance to use. The remote control, of course, is good, but the truly smart TV is not controlled by a single remote control .

    Users of Android smartphones can get full access to their LG TV with Smart TV function using our updated LG TV Remote App. It’s about him that will be discussed today, and if you think that in such an application there is little interesting, and the topic is advertising - look under the cut and you will be pleasantly surprised. ;)

    To study the problem of remote control, perhaps you should start by studying the origins of remote control of the TV
    Probably, when the remote control systems (still wired) appeared, they seemed to be at the top of the evolution of the convenience of controlling a TV.


    Although, looking at the picture, it's hard to believe that this remote was convenient.
    True, the television itself was small and "pot-bellied" at that time, but this has nothing to do with the matter. Later, remotes based on IR LEDs and radio wave transmitters appeared, but their basic form of a “brick with buttons” underwent only minor changes in the shape of the brick itself and the location of the buttons on it. What functionality was originally laid down by the creators in this remote control, so you were satisfied throughout the life of this TV.



    Usually, however, “everything that is” is immediately pushed in, and from this the consoles begin to look strange and weigh inhumane.

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    How to replace the remote control from the TV?


    The idea of ​​replacing the remote control from the TV to a smartphone began to beg at exactly the moment when smart TVs appeared, and smartphones became as integral part of modern society as a car or the Internet. What you need can be displayed on the touch screen, and everything “additional” can be easily hidden in a drawer, a separate screen or submenu. Well, someone usually embodies good thoughts, especially since the company has experience in smartphone manufacturing and one of the best Smart TV systems on the market.

    LG Remote App


    An application that anyone can download on the Google Play Market is much more than just a remote control. This is a flight control center and a supermarket in one bottle. The possibilities of this platform are the sea, almost all Smart TV content can be controlled from the screen of your smartphone.
    The main menu, applications and premium services, content via Smart Share, settings and other features are available directly from the application. There is no need to even open the menu on the TV, all the information is on the screen of the device in your hands.



    The application supports full-text universal search, which does not matter, search among applications, services, games or in the program guide: enter the first letters, select what you are looking for, and start / read with one touch. You can also forget about not the most convenient text input in the browser, social network applets and just on the calendar - the keyboard of your smartphone (or tablet, everything will work on tablets too) becomes the main input method for the TV. If you still need to work with the on-screen cursor, it makes no sense to put the smartphone aside. A virtual touchpad (and, hopefully, in the future - also a virtual remote control based on an accelerometer) is at your service.



    In addition to all this, this “smart remote control” also gets feedback options: broadcasting a TV program to a smartphone or tablet (even to another room), screenshots at any time and convenient TV control in game applications and a browser, access to everything you need in a couple of “clicks” on the screen without interruption from playing the current content. Such conventional remotes did not even dream of.



    You can download and test the application in the Google Play Store . This application is compatible with all models of 2012, last year’s TVs will work with a simplified version of the program, LG TV Remote 2011 .

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