I had an INVOCA remote, but ended up giving it away as it was virtually unusable for me (the damn thing turns itself off after 30 minutes or so of non-use) and I worked with it for quite a while. I didn't expect or get much for the $80 it cost at the time.
I purchased and use a SiCare Light II voice remote control daily. I like it mainly because of its portability and fairly high recognition accuracy. It's not cheap at $2,100 but that's about half what you have to pay for a full blown environmental control system (ECU). It works great, but it does take some time to set up, and I am fairly tech savvy. It can learn commands from any IR remote. It lets me control my TV, cable box, amplifier/receiver, DVD and CD players, but I did have to come up with a few command workarounds to control all these devices. By adding an IR X-10 control kit, which I already had, you can also control several lamps or other X-10 enabled devices like a ceiling fan in my case. Visit the following site for more details: http://thespeechgurus.com/sicareliteii.html The guys at Speech Gurus are great. They answered all my questions in detail and quickly resolved a problem with the initial unit they sent me. I would gladly do business with them again. Steve - C4, 21 years From: Lori Michaelson [mailto:lorilivin...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:54 PM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] Voice remote controls Hello everybody, Nearly 8 years ago I purchased the INVOCA remote control that can operate the TV by using voice. It did not really work the greatest back then and since then I have not really needed it. That has now changed. I tried to get it working last week and it was working pretty good the very first day but the next day and the day after that it was not. My husband has checked the batteries and inside performance and everything seems to be okay. My question is... as anyone found or used anything better? Thanks in advance! Lori -- Lori Age - 45 C4/5 complete quad, 30 years post Tucson, AZ
