Remote Control Combinational Universal Learning Controller Chunghop L108E for TV/SAT/DVD/CBL/DVB-T/AUX Big Button

I knew going into it that this remote would be cheap looking, it's light, and the silver finish on plastic never holds up over time.Having said that, it's dirt cheap, all buttons can be programmed, and it works... which is all I needed it to do.I'm using it as a backup for an expensive HDMI matrix box that came with a credit card remote. You need the remote to run the box, and those remotes have even shorter lives. I figured the chance of being able to get a replacement later is pretty much zero, so I've copied the remote into this thing and use this as the daily having stored the original. 100% happy with it for that purpose, thus the 5 stars.Having said that, I'd pay twice as much for the same thing with a better black finish and no goofy logos. It's ugly.It's also very simple in arrangement with big buttons so it'd be a good "simple" replacement option for folks that need bigger buttons than most chiclet size buttons oem remotes have these days.

Pros:- You can set any button to do anything you want. You just press the learn button, then expose it to an infrared signal, when it picks up the signal the red LED flashes, you press the button on here to save it to a button.Cons:- You need a way of generating the IR signals for it to learn from. This means you need a working remote with strong batteries so the IR signal comes through loud and clear.- It takes patience to program, sometimes it captures a partial signal so it looks like it worked, but in fact didn't capture so you have to test each key you programmed to make sure it captured the signal correctly.- The design looks like crap, and I am being very kind about it. The font on the front is Comic Sans! "Designed by Vincent Connare Comic Sans MS is a sans-serif casual script typeface released in 1994 by Microsoft Corporation. A casual, non-connecting script inspired by comic book lettering, Comic Sans intended for use in informal documents and children's materials." Yep... this is probably one of the dumbest looking remotes I've ever held. 0/10 for design. Everything about this screams "designed by a five year old from 1995"All said, it works as advertised: you can program any button to be any button on any remote. I set the volume buttons to match the volume buttons of my sound bar, and the channel button to match the channel buttons on my TV. Now I can control both with the same ugly remote. There are 28 buttons on this ugly remote, and you can set them any way you like. Yeah, if you wanted, you could set the volume up button to make the volume go down... anything you want will work.Note: my Vizio TV's remote's IR output was very weak, even with fresh batteries. Even the TV had a hard time picking it up, so that's way I wanted this, unfortunately it had a hard time picking up the signal too. I took the Vizio TV remote apart and powered it with an external 3.3V DC power supply to make it overdrive the LED. It actually worked! With the higher voltage this remote picked up the signals just fine and I was able to program it....COMIC SANS ... ugh.

I bought two of these devices and had the same result with both of them. Everything seems normal during the programming steps. But they did not work for any of my devices - not TV, not cable box and not for several other devices.

I don't write many reviews, but figuring that many potential buyers were as skeptical as I was, I felt it important to point out this interesting fact: IT WORKS GREAT! Not that you would think all would be well from the product description or the baffling selling points on the packaging. Carry on bravely, though, as the internal instruction sheet is intelligible and opening the plastic clamshell is about the most difficult part of the effort.It took me only a few minutes to reproduce the key buttons I needed to control an Epson projector, a Sony sound bar, an LG plasma TV, a Cambridge Audio integrated amp and a Marantz home theater amp. You put this universal remote in programming mode, press one button on each remote and, in about two seconds, the two buttons now do the same thing. And then you move on to a new pair of buttons and repeat; the universal remote will stay in programming mode so if you know what you want to do, setting up several button pairs per minute is easy-peasy.I had what turned out to be a useful idea if you have access to a copier . . . lay the remote on the glass and make a paper copy of the button layout. Then use a pencil and (probably) an eraser to optimize your result. This may not be necessary if you are just making a clone of a current remote, but in my case where I was using this to reduce the need for FIVE different remotes, it took some thought to figure out the optimum button configuration.There are a few things to note. Not surprisingly, if the original remote is RF (radio frequency) rather than IR (infrared), nothing's going to happen. And attempts to copy my Tivo remote (set in IR mode) didn't work and I don't know why. Finally, my Cambridge Audio amp needed a separate key devoted to "on" and another devoted to "off," even though it's a single button on the original remote. So if you find you can turn some piece of equipment after transferring the on/off button but can't turn it off with the same button, you probably need to devote on button to each power state.Overall, though, it's fantastic. I have, over the years, used very upscale/expensive programmable remotes from Yamaha, Harmony, Philips and others, and have also used the Harmonys at pretty much every cost level. And I've also used a dozen "enter the code" universal remotes. They all have merit, but in the situation where you want to quickly copy a few important keys from each of several remotes, nothing is as easy to set up and as easy to use as this thing. If this sounds like your situation, risk the purchase. I was dubious, but neither the low cost nor strange appearance kept this from being exactly what I needed to most easily handle day-to-day control of a rather complicated system.

Cannot set mode buttons for different devices. A-H buttons are just programmable buttons for same device, not mode buttons to program additional devices. Power button is the power button for just one device. Works, but very difficult to program.