A smart remote control that can work with a smart home platform, such as Alexa and Google Home, is an essential part of a smart home cinema.
Logitech, which produced the best universal smart remotes, discontinued its product line. Thus the options are very scarce now.
One of the best smart remotes available nowadays is the Sofabaton X1S. It controls many devices, it is easy to program and works with both Alexa and Google Assistant.
Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.
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