I have been looking for a good way to control our HTPC from the couch and had thought that I finally found it. I first ordered the iPazzport "air mouse" with learning IR functionality iPazzPort 2.4GHz Mini Wireless Fly Air Mouse Keyboard with IR Remote. This was a fairly well designed product. I really enjoyed the backlit keyboard and found it easy to type. Setup could not have been easier and the range was good. Unfortunately, I did not enjoy the air mouse functionality. I find it much more difficult to use than touch pads that I have tried in the past. It was a good product, just not the one for me. I returned the product to seller and had no problems at all.Because I enjoyed the keyboard aspect of it, I decided to try out a very similar product: the Unisen iPazzPort KP-810-18R Wireless Keyboard and Touchpad with Learning Infrared (IR) Remote Control 2.4G RF Google TV CompatibleUnisen iPazzPort kp-810-18R which is very similar to the first, but has a touch pad. I purchased the product from an Amazon seller called Key to success. I received my order very quickly and it was packaged well. So far so good!
The product was awesome! In fact perfect! Not only does the keyboard work well, the touch-pad is great, the buttons are well designed, setup is as easy as it can be, and the IR learning remote is fantastic. This seemed to be just the product that I was looking for. Then after a week everything went south. For no apparent reason the lazer pointer button jammed and would not turn off. I was able to dislodge it with a sewing needle and was still committed to it being a great product. Then the next day the IR remote randomly stopped working. I would press a button and I would get a quick blink of the LED but then nothing. Touching a button would not do anything unless I took out the battery. Ok so maybe we are down to a 4 star review now. I was still enjoying the rest of the product.
Then the touch pad started working intermittently. Sometimes it worked great, and sometimes not at all. And then to top it all off, the battery stopped charging. How disappointing! All of the reviews of this product were great. Maybe I just got a lemon. These things happen. So I decided to contact the seller of the device (key to success)to request a return or exchange. My first contact was four days ago, and I got no response. My second contact was yesterday, and still no response. I would like to give this product another try, despite my concern that it might not last very long. This has all the makings of a great product. It's well designed, looks good, feels good, works well...for a while. If I am able to get in touch with the seller and get a replacement I will write another review. This should be a five star product all day long, but after breaking within a week, it's lucky to get two stars.
These are the steps;
1. press TV key once and the press SET key for 2 seconds until green light comes up.
2.choose the key you want the remote to learn EJ: press power key once and press power key on the other remote (the actual TV remote) then the green light will flash 3 times letting you know it has learned the code. Repeat the process per each keyI've had this for about a week. For my HTPC setup, I had been using a wireless keyboard and a IR universal remote. The keyboard was too big, and I don't like having a separate remote. This seemed like it could cover everything in a single device, which it pretty much has. At first, I couldn't get it to connect reliably to the computer from more than five feet away. I moved the dongle onto a the end of a 10M long active repeater USB cable far from the computer and now everything works great. Surprisingly good reception even from outside the room.
It packs a lot of functionality into one little device. The touchpad and all the keys seem to work well, except that the mute button doesn't do anything on my Win7 system. The touchpad also is very responsive. I love that it is rechargable -no more dealing with dead batteries.
It would be nice if the IR side had more buttons. The vol up and vol down buttons require key combinations of the function key + F2/F3 -a little bit of a pain for something so frequently used. On the side of the device is a Page Up / Page Down button right where the pad of your thumb goes. It would be great if that were the vol button. However, the scroller on the trackpad makes a halfway decent volume adjuster for VLC. Also, the button to turn on the backlight is also a combination of function + F1; a backlight button really should be set apart from all the rest so it is easy to identify in the dark. This device also has a laser pointer which I covered with a piece of black electrical tape -don't want the kids pointing it at each others' eyes.
I think I might try using a keyboard remapper utility to change a few of the keys to be more to my preferred layout.
All in all, this was an excellent purchase. Well worth the money.I couldn't be happier! The seller "iPazzPort" recommended me this device in order to operate my PS3 and it works great. Also, it is the only one that works as a remote control for third party devices like TVs. It worked perfectly with my PC running Win7/64bits.
The only negative thing is that the user manual is very difficult to understand due to the poor English and grammar. The manual is also in Chinese, so I assume that the asian that wrote the Chinese part also wrote the English part.
Even with that, the product exceeded my expectations!This item works great and was exactly what i was looking for. I was never able to get the keyboard to sync with my TV/DVD player because the manual was essentially useless. For the functions of keypad/touchpad, it worked great.
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