Dear Gang,
I know this product has been mentioned on this site before, but it's now out of beta testing and is shipping (apparently just in the past day or two). It's called "RedEye" and it's by a company called ThinkFlood. I picked-up on it via one of the Apple rumor sites (MacDailyNews) that I was perusing today, and it looks like it might be just the thing we've been waiting for in terms of an easy, user-programmable remote that utilizes the power of the iPhone / iPod Touch to fully control B&O equipment.
I'm in the process of putting together a BV-7 55" set-up (haven't actually gotten one yet, but am designing my set-up). As an Apple guy who uses Apple TVs in addition to cable boxes, I like B&O's PUC and the ability to control these and other devices via IR blasters. However, I'm finding myself in somewhat of a quandary as I'd like to use just a Beo 4 and an iPod Touch to control everything, but I'm ticked that the Blu-ray player in the BV-7 is a pain in the buttocks to control via the Beo 4. Likewise, I'd like to actually control a separate Blu-ray/DVD/Netflix player, and I can't seem to figure out how to do this other than going the Beo 5 route and meandering through all that programming stuff. As someone who lives far from the nearest B&O store, I find the Beo 5 programming route daunting and unnecessarily arduous (I guess I'm just too use to the Apple way of things).
If this new software/hardware called RedEye gets B&O codes soon, this could be the answer to my prayers - I could control my B&O A/V set-up as well as the Apple TV, cable box, additional Blu-ray/Netflix box, etc. all via an iPod Touch and all with easily programmed sequences to turn on my unique stuff. I actually called the company this afternoon and though they didn't give an exact time frame for uploading the actual B&O IR codes, they implied that it'd be in the next month or so.
What do you guys think? Is my excitement unwarranted?
Mark