Hama universal TV remote for 2 devices, large keys

The one genuine universal on this shelf

A database of over a thousand devices and a learning mode. That pairing is what a universal remote should be: the database covers the common cases instantly, and learning rescues whatever it misses, including devices too old or too obscure to be listed.

Two other remotes here are brand-specific replacements. This is the universal.

The feature nobody thinks about until it bites

Permanent code storage. Codes survive a battery change. A remote that forgets has to be reprogrammed once a year, by which time the code list has gone the way of all paper. It is a trivial piece of hardware and it decides whether the remote stays set up.

Two devices, and the arithmetic

A television and one other box. A set, a receiver and a disc player is already one too many, and that is an ordinary living room. Count the boxes before ordering — nothing on this shelf handles more than two.

The limit of the whole shelf

Infrared. Several current streaming devices are Bluetooth-only and cannot be controlled by any infrared remote, whatever the database contains. Match the technology to what you own first.

What is not stated

Backlighting. On a product used in the dark, its absence is a real omission — and it is absent from every remote on this shelf except one, whose keys merely glow.

Availability

On sale from 11 € to 17 € on the German, American, British, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores at the time of checking.

The Italian Amazon listing is priced above 1.6× the cheapest store, which is normally a reshipping offer rather than a local price; it is left out of the range above.

Prices and availability are what Keepa reported on the date this page was updated; both move.