BroadLink RM4 pro IR and RF 433MHz Universal Remote, All in One Hub Code Learning, WiFi Remote Control for Smart Home Devices TV, STB, AC, Curtain Motor, Works with Alexa & Google Home

WHAT IS WITH ALL THE BAD REVIEWS?? Currently setting up smart home and this is a must for the voice control over your TV and set top box and load of other things After reading the bad reviews I knew after reading some of them they were doing soooo many things wrong it was cringy to read and some people should use common sense 🙄 or read the information that comes in the box Package came fast with my prime account I have a split network here from the amazing deco M4 access points where I give my guests assess to my network also I have another split for all my 2.4 smart home stuff so I can jump on the 2.4 and I think this where users are falling flat on their face You need to have the ability to be able to jump onto the 2.4 network in your house and also know how to make your phone join that network just to setup the box and app ******************** IF YOU CAN'T DO THIS DONT BUT THIS ITEM!!! OR leave the company bad feedback its not fair on them or users looking to invest! ******************** Download the app Install and setup using the same email as your home ecosystem you are using for alexa ect in your house Put your phone in the 2.4 network ( android pull down screen and hold down the WiFi logo and then look for your 2.4 network) and turn on Bluetooth and location services while you are there and setup is on screen and super easy to follow make sure your TV is on and your rm Pro is looking in directly at the TV for the moment during the set-up process The setup will ask you tv information if you don't have it to hand don't worry as long as you have the name of the TV it will give you "the most common settings" for that TV.. The rm Pro came up first with my TV remote and infact all other remote templates I asked for in secs You will be asked to try the remote out like volume up and down and menus ect ect and if you are happy just add the remote and give the remote a name... Within 10mins I had installed the app updated everything and installed the skill to alexa I set up a routine on my 4th generation alexa and now I say " TV on" My smart switches turn on power to the TV and freesat box ( I switch them off to save power in todays current situation) and add a small delay of 15 sec for the freesat box to boot and the alexa broadlink skill kicks in and fires the broadlink to turn on TV off standby and freesat to TV guide.. Super easy to do Brilliant value for money 👍 No worries with Alexa and skill setup at all 👍 And added bonus I have a smart extension lead that has a USB on it so I plugged the broadlink into that and don't even need to use a plug space 👍👍 Remote control is super fast like I have pressed it with the factory remote, so they can now be cleared off the sofa table making more room and looking less cluttered.. Honestly it's a win win!!! Stop leaving bad reviews about the product!! Like anyone that trains or walks dogs know "it's not the dog " rm pro" its the owner " new user" that need training I will order another the bedroom TV later so I can turn some rf switches and TV on and off as well Could not have asked for a easier setup and use out the box!!! 👍👍👍

This is hard to use and ultimately failed completely for the intended use of controlling blinds. Possibly the blinds use a rolling code. The lack of feedback in the learning process means I do not know. Using 433MHz is a lottery and can be a huge waste of time. The concept is dubious. The IR learning is more often useful but the mini does this just as well.

I just replaced my RM mini3 with this RM4 Pro, as I have recently installed motorised blinds which use an RF signal which the mini3 (IR only) didn't support. Like the RM mini3 setup is somewhat of a test of technical skills and patience due to oddly worded things in the instructions and app, as well as the app itself overall not being very intuitive. I found setting up the RM4 pro more difficult than the mini3 as the instructions/app seem to describe a setup method that isn't the default setup method when the RM4 pro is first turned on (remember what I said about things not being very intuitive?). Once I overcame this challenge (by resetting the device several times until the lights started flashing the way the app described they should be) things got moving fairly quickly. I managed to re-setup my IR devices (would be a nice feature in the app if these could be moved between devices if you have more than 1) and will be adding my motorised blinds once they arrive. Once setup these devices are a fantastically inexpensive and reliable way to make things work with the likes of Alexa. For example, to get my blinds offically working with Alexa I'd need to purchase a seporate £150 control unit from the manufacturer, but I can do it for a fraction of the cost using the RM4 Pro to simulate the RF remote control being pressed instead. I can also control older IR remote based devices like TV's and ceiling fans which otherwise would not be Alexa controlled at all. As long as you are willing to persist through the not so intuitive setup process you'll be good to go!

Excellent. I like the timer function. Can schedule it to come on during the night to keep the temperature up in the van on these cold night. Run for thirty minutes then switch off wait an hour then run again for thirty minutes

Right now I am just adding some initial thoughts after the setup process. I come quite close to giving up getting this connected to the wifi, for quite some time I thought I was not going to be able to get it connected at all, both methods they give you to connect just resulted in errors, even after disabling 5ghz on the router. Eventually it seemed like the process had actually worked but the app still said it failed, but after waiting for a while the device just popped up, worrying to think this is a device on its 4th product generation and this is the user experience. The app requires you to set your town but the town list is not even in proper alphabetical order, and it turns out my town isn't even on the list, making that step just an obnoxious process quite unlike anything I have seen. I had assumed common / popular devices would just be a case of pick a profile and go but apparently that is not the case even for things as generic as the Virgin media set top box. They have custom user profiles that seems like a good idea but the user profile list is an unorganised mess, most profiles only show a brand name rather than a model number and when I did searches for specific models the results showed empty, but then I found when manually scrolled the list there was profiles matching the name of what I had searched for, so you can't even rely on search to quickly sort through the list. I went with the Pro model with RF support in the hope it might support our Oowolf remote control ceiling lights, I could find no information compatibility before hand as no specs are given on the lights but from what I can tell these do not work. So based on the setup process I would say if you are not happy to troubleshoot and jump through unnecessary hurdles this isn't a device for you, the app comes across as just sloppy all round. The hope is once I have gone through the horrible setup process it will at least function well enough to meet my needs, I will update this review once I have had some extended time with the unit to properly judge if this device is worth the trouble. Update after using the unit for a while - The problems have continued beyond the setup process, various bugs such as remotes just failing to show up in the list, wrong inputs being triggered, if i press volume down on my amp remote sometimes it will just turn off the device, no idea why, only happens about 1/10 times the button is pressed but it is a real pain when it happens so I just avoid using this button completely. Sometimes the scenes just disappear from the app for other family members with the app installed, problem just comes and goes randomly. Volume control doesn't support press and hold which for my amp is a big problem so volume adjustment is super slow even if you setup a scene to trigger a sequence of presses, I can be waiting 15 seconds to make a minor volume adjustment that would be 2 seconds on the remote, press and hold should be a standard thing, im once again surprised that this is a 4th gen product but it seems to have some really fundamental issues with its usability. One of the things I like is using the scenes to setup sequences of actions, along with you being able to set your own voice triggers for them, I just need to say activate *scene name* and it will fire off my scene. Overall i'd say it has its uses, but the problems are fairly regular and impact usability enough that 3 stars feels fair. Press and hold volume control should be a thing, scenes do not make up for this especially as the minimum trigger time between inputs when setting up a sequence is way too long, currently you either have to have no delay that leads to dropped signals, or a long delay with no steps in between, another really basic limitation in the app that really shouldn't exist.

I'm not sure why there have been quite a few negative reviews about the IR/RF remotes/relays. I found it easy to set up (remember to turn on Bluetooth scanning on your phone when logging these into the WiFi network for the first time). I use this to control electric blinds in two skylights as well as the HVAC unit in a room. The HVAC is Daikin, which is preprogrammed into the Broadlink library (so very easy to set up). The RF signals and frequency for the Comfy blinds are not in the library, but it was really easy to teach the codes to the Broadlink unit. This is a great piece of kit ! Update: I've just discovered the range on the RF control function reaches a third set of skylight blinds about 20 feet away from the Broadlink. So one unit has enabled me to fully automate three sets of blinds and two HVAC units. I love it !

This product is brilliant, smaller than I expected :). I have used the IR function to map my TV and speaker remote, used the RF to link control my ceiling fans and used the easy integration button to link all these to my Google home account so I can leverage the voice control and routines (worth noting routines can be done in the broadlink app without Google home) 10/10 would recommend, I'm thinking of buying a 2nd to create a simpler remote for my granny to use on her ipad

Didn’t work! It connected to the TV remote and sky broadband, but somehow it could link but couldn’t connect to my iPhone 13. I used CHATGPT to troubleshoot and diagnose, but there is a fault in the hardware or software. CHATGPT told me to get the Switchbot Hub Mini instead and that worked perfectly! ❤️