IR Blaster Remote

Releases

• Sep 28, 2026 3.4.5
  ## Changelog notes ### New Features - Add Marantz protocol support, including Code Finder, Universal Power, and compatible database imports. ### Improvements - Keep protocol choices in alphabetical order. - Update live waveforms to match transmitted commands, including changing protocol toggle bits. ### Bug Fixes

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  - Stop loop animations when transmission fails. - Prevent failed commands from showing a successful “Sent” confirmation. - Prevent overlapping initial loop transmissions and conflicting Send/Loop actions. - Handle closing the waveform screen during animation. - Handle missing IR hardware and transmission failures without unnecessary crash reports.
• Sep 27, 2026 3.4.3
  ## Changelog notes ### Share your remotes - Share remotes, individual buttons, learned signals and macros using QR codes or files. - Import shared items as new copies without replacing existing remotes. ### Privacy friendly crash reports - Review saved crash details when reopening the app after a crash. - Copy, share or email reports to help investigate problems. - Dismiss reports or decide later. Nothing is sent automatically.

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  ### Optional app updates - New update settings with manual checks and optional automatic checks. - Automatic checks are disabled by default. - GitHub installations can download verified APK updates and confirm installation. - F-Droid installations receive upstream release notices while keeping updates through F-Droid. - Google Play builds use the official in app update flow. ### Fixes and improvements - Home-screen widgets now send commands without opening the app. - New screens translated into all 23 supported languages.
• Sep 21, 2026 3.4.2
  ## Changelog notes ### New Features - **Custom remote layouts:** Choose 1-6 buttons per row and circle, rounded-square, or rectangle buttons. Existing Compact and Wide layouts remain supported. - **Blank spaces and layout editing:** Recreate your physical remote with empty cells and rows. Drag buttons or tap a button and its destination to move it, swap occupied cells, and undo layout changes. (#96, #111, #112) - **Automation support:** Trigger raw IR commands from apps such as Tasker, MacroDroid, and Automation. Enable automation explicitly in Settings and select built-in IR, a supported USB dongle, or an audio IR adapter. Built-in IR remains the default. (#115) ### IR Code Discovery

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  - Faster database browsing with clearer brand and model selection, improved search matching, and reusable search results. - Code Finder now starts with known database codes rather than brute-force testing. - Database scans skip duplicate signals and load candidates in batches, reducing repeated tests and loading work. - Existing saved scans retain their previous candidate ordering. - Fixed the cooldown control so changes apply during a scan and the full selected delay follows each transmission. - Saving a hit pauses scanning safely and records the last successfully sent candidate. - Improved scan cancellation, error handling, candidate navigation, and compact-screen layouts. ### Settings and Compatibility - Reorganized Settings into focused categories instead of one long list. - Fixed Android file-picker filtering that prevented selecting supported remote import files. (#114) - Corrected Proton address and command byte order. (#113) - Fixed payload handling for Denon, JVC, Sharp, Thomson7, XSAT, and RCC2026, including lost bits and incorrect byte ordering. - Updated smart code generation to match the corrected protocol payloads. - Added independent regression coverage across all supported IR encoders. ### More Reliable Macros - Missing buttons and failed commands now stop the sequence and display an error instead of continuing and reporting success. - Improved cancellation and restart handling, including pending transmissions and delays. - Backgrounding the app stops further macro commands without automatically resuming. A command already handed to the hardware cannot be recalled. - Restored the running animation after manual continuation and kept the final elapsed time stable. - Cancelling an edited macro now asks before discarding unsaved changes. - Serialized saves to prevent overlapping writes. Failed saves no longer publish unsaved changes to the macro list. - Verified duplicate, delete, undo, legacy button references, and recovery after a failed save. ### Other Improvements - Fixed remote and waveform screen cleanup during navigation. - Localized new layout and code-search guidance across all supported languages.
• Aug 31, 2026 3.4.1
  ## Changelog notes ### New Features - Added a smarter, protocol-aware IR Code Finder to locate working codes faster. - Added an optional setting to automatically open the last used remote when starting the app. - Added proper NEC True LSB bit order support ### Protocol Improvements

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  - Corrected RC5 extended commands and 7-bit command handling. - Corrected Sony12, Sony15, and Sony20 code handling. - Improved RC6 Mode 0 payload validation and encoding. - Corrected Denon, Sharp, NRC17, Proton, RCA-38, Pioneer, Samsung32, and F12 signals. - Improved Universal Power and Signal Tester compatibility across multiple protocols. - Fixed protocol preview and repeat-state handling. ### Import Fixes - Corrected Flipper NECext imports to use the proper NEC preamble. - Improved Flipper imports for NEC42, Samsung32, RC5X, and other supported protocols. - Improved RC5 and RC6 imports from LIRC and IRPlus files. - Unsupported parsed Flipper protocols are now rejected instead of being incorrectly treated as NEC. - Improved imports from the bundled infrared database. ### Android Improvements - Improved edge-to-edge display support on recent Android versions. - Improved file import and export reliability. - Reduced memory usage when processing selected files and images. - Enabled additional release optimizations for improved application size and performance. - Updated all supported translations for the new startup setting.
• Jul 25, 2026 3.3.4
  ## Changelog notes ### New Added settings option to show/hide protocol tag and hex code from the buttons. ### Fixed Fixed playing back learned replays bricks functionality
• Jul 3, 2026 3.3.1
  ## Changelog notes ### Fixed Fix F-Droid dependency lock compatibility
• May 17, 2026 3.3.0
  ## Changelog notes ### New Feature Add home screen widgets for remote buttons ### Fixed Fix Brazilian Portuguese localization
• Apr 25, 2026 3.2.1
  ## Changelog notes ### New Feature Added IR waveform visualization to the button signal preview inspector. Added an interactive waveform view to remote button long-press actions with Send and Loop controls. Added waveform preview and replay animation for captured Learning Mode signals when raw timing data is available. ### Fixed Fixed IR database search losing the query when pressing keyboard OK or dismissing the keyboard. Fixed remote export on Android 10 by improving the storage permission and file picker fallback flow.
• Apr 13, 2026 3.2.0
  ## Changelog notes ### New Feature - Add a guided Remote Setup and Remote Studio flow to make creating and editing remotes faster and easier on phones - Refine the button editor into a 3-step pipeline for label, button color, and IR signal setup - Improve empty remote UX with clearer import and add actions, plus better layout previews when creating a remote - Add icon color customization so symbol buttons can use a different icon color from the button background - **[Beta]** Learning mode for Huawei compatible and old LG compatible devices ### Fixed

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  - Improve the raw pattern preview with a full-screen inspector, copy, and share actions - Add clearer first-run hardware guidance so users know the app needs built-in IR or a compatible dongle to transmit - Improve translations across supported languages, including new Learning Mode, remote editor, hardware guidance, and icon color strings
• Apr 9, 2026 3.1.0
  ## Changelog notes ### New Feature - Added GitHub Store for browsing compatible IR files directly from GitHub repositories - Added preview and validation before importing GitHub Store files into remotes - Improved GitHub Store UX with saved sources, better back navigation, hidden internal files and post-import actions - Added caching and optional GitHub connection settings to reduce rate limit issues - Improved create/edit remote flow with direct access to GitHub Store imports
• Apr 7, 2026 3.0.0
  ## Changelog notes ### New Feature - Added Tiqiaa and ZaZa USB IR learning mode with capture and replay - Added Elksmart USB IR learning mode with capture and replay ### Fixed Bug - Fixed file picker OOM by disabling in memory import loading
• Apr 6, 2026 2.1.11
  ## Changelog notes - Improved the Remotes home screen with a faster and cleaner top strip for last remote and pinned remotes - Added launcher shortcuts for Last Remote, Signal Tester, Last Macro, and Universal Power (https://developer.android.com/guide/app-actions/dynamic-shortcuts) - Added predictive back support handling for Remote View, Signal Tester, and macro screens (https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/custom-back/predictive-back-gesture) - Improved localization support, added more app languages, and fixed fallback-to-English behavior for unsupported system languages - Fixed Polish plural and count grammar in key UI labels and summaries - Improved USB IR dongle support, including additional ElkSmart device detection - Reduced bulky top-of-screen UI so remotes are easier to reach on small phones
• Mar 30, 2026 2.1.10
  ## Changelog notes Default unsupported app locale fallback to English Added translations for Polish, Filipino, Ukrainian, and Dutch
• Mar 13, 2026 2.1.7
  ## Changelog notes - Added full ElkSmart USB subtype handling based on reverse engineering of the official Ocrustar app - Improved ElkSmart device classification and identify handling for supported 0x045C dongles - Added distinct ElkSmart transmit handling for subtype 02 AA and 70 01 - Fixed RC5 waveform generation to preserve the final mark and pad only the inter-frame gap - Improved RC5 toggle behavior so rapid repeats keep the same toggle and new presses flip it - Fixed RC6 toggle handling with repeat-friendly behavior - Added the required RC6 trailing 6t silent gap - Fixed haptics issue
• Feb 15, 2026 2.0.14
  ## Changelog notes [BUG FIXED] Fixed DB import/edit parsing for sony12, sony15, and sony20 so address/command are decoded correctly from packed Sony payloads. Fixed protocol field length inference to avoid miscounting hint text which caused incorrect 3/2 or 5/4 limits. Improved short-hex handling by padding before split so address/command fields don't get dropped. Auto-fills protocol default frequency on DB protocol imports when frequency is empty.
• Feb 15, 2026 2.1.5
  ## Changelog notes [BUG FIXED] Fixed DB import/edit parsing for sony12, sony15, and sony20 so address/command are decoded correctly from packed Sony payloads. Fixed protocol field length inference to avoid miscounting hint text which caused incorrect 3/2 or 5/4 limits. Improved short-hex handling by padding before split so address/command fields don't get dropped. Auto-fills protocol default frequency on DB protocol imports when frequency is empty.
• Feb 14, 2026 2.0.13
  ## Changelog notes [NEW] - Add more icons (459 icons total) - Unified button naming across app (text/image/icon + icon names). - Fixed 2-grid icon rendering. Added command search in macro and quick-tile pickers. - Added macro step visual previews. - Added Undo snackbars for button/macro/device-control removals. - Improved empty states with "What next" + CTA (incl. Quick Settings "Set Power tile"). - Added color contrast normalization/accessibility for custom button colors.

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  - Added Semantics/touch target and large text tweaks. [BUG] - Fix icons not displayed in 2 grid - Fix Import of IRPLUS xml file using NEC protocol
• Feb 13, 2026 2.0.12
  ## Changelog notes ### Icon Library for Button Creation - Added 200+ Material Icons organized in 10 categories: - Media Controls (play, pause, stop, skip, record, etc.) - Volume & Audio (volume up/down, mute, speaker, etc.) - Navigation (arrows, OK/select, home, back, etc.) - Power (power on/off, toggle, restart) - Numbers (0-9, plus, minus) - Settings (menu, settings, info, help)

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  - Display (TV, brightness, HDR, zoom, fullscreen) - Colors & Lights (lightbulb, color, palette) - Icon Picker UI: - Search bar for quick icon finding - Category filters for easy browsing - 4-column grid with icon preview - Shows icon name and category - Large preview in button creation screen ### Button Background Color Customization - 21 preset colors to choose from: - Default, Red, Pink, Purple, Deep Purple, Indigo - Blue, Light Blue, Cyan, Teal, Green, Light Green - Lime, Yellow, Amber, Orange, Deep Orange - Brown, Grey, Blue Grey, Black - Smart Features: - Color shown as circular swatches with labels - Easy tap-to-select interface - Auto contrast adjustment - text/icon color automatically switches between white/black based on background brightness - Works with all button types (text, image, icon) ### Hardware Support - Added ELKSMART Smart IR Blaster (PID 0x0132) Support ### Bug Fixes - Fixed NECx2 Protocol Import Bug
• Feb 2, 2026 2.0.11
  ## Changelog notes - Added Universal Power (TVKill-style) with offline curated patterns, rate limits, and advanced filters. - New Universal Power screen with status, pause/stop, and recent results. - Device Controls integration: add remote buttons to Android Device Controls, with a management screen and test send. - Quick Settings tiles: 4 tiles (Power/Mute/Vol+/Vol−) with per-tile mapping and favorites. - Quick Settings chooser with favorites, reassign shortcut, and send test. - Quick Settings tiles now send via internal IR directly without opening the app once mapped. - Long-press remote buttons to pin/unpin Device Controls and Quick Settings favorites. - New bulk database import when creating/editing remotes: multi-select keys or import all by brand/model/protocol.