Our mobiles are full of different ports and sensors . However, only a handful of privileged people can boast of having an infrared port. Although this option dates back to the best glory times of Nokia mobiles, even in 2020 we did not find many terminals with this option. However, there is a method so that any mobile can add an infrared port to become a real remote control.
Having an infrared port on the mobile can make it a remote control for television, much more precise and faster than the solutions offered via Wi-Fi. If our mobile does not have this option, we will have to make use of a specific peripheral that will take advantage of some port of our mobile to equip it with this technology. The downside is that that specific port, which can be the 3.5mm headphone jack or the charging port , will be deprecated while using infrared.
Add infrared to mobile
If you have a headphone jack
The headphone port is being lost by leaps and bounds. The high-end has practically ruled it out, while there are more and more mid-range devices that integrate it. If we have a mobile that has this option, perhaps it is a better way to not occupy the charging port while adding the possibility of infrared.
In this case, simply connect the accessory, since the necessary power will be taken from the headphone port. This option is very cheap and is priced at about six euros on Amazon.
Without headphone jack
In this case, we will have to use the charging port of our device to add infrared to our mobile. Luckily there are tools such as GuDoQi, which connects to USB-C, microUSB or Lightning ports so that our mobile phone is a remote control for TV or any other electronic device in the house such as air conditioning or a projector.
This device has a range of 12 meters and according to the manufacturer, controls 99.9% of devices that work using IR. It will start emitting infrared as soon as we connect it to the charging port of our Android or iPhone mobile. Its price is 12 euros.
The necessary app
There is no use connecting these devices if we do not have the support of an app. In this sense, it is possible that not all work the same on all mobiles. We will leave you just below with the two that offer the best results for both iPhone and Android. Once we have connected our terminal, it will be enough to start the app and select the television model we have, in order to start emitting infrared on the frequency of our television model.
