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READYWARE, tuned for every screen
The Ultimate Remote Control
Runs on your tablet, phone, and your TV — even all three at once. Put it on a TV and the biggest screen in the house becomes the most powerful device in the room.
AndroidPhone & Tablet
2.0.32
Build 54
Your whole fleet, in sync — name every device, scan the house, and push your whole setup from screen to screen.
- Device Notes. Stick a private name and note on any device — it stays on that phone and never travels in your .irc. How to ›
- Scan & Sync Fleet. Find your other READYWARE devices on the WiFi and send a remote, your hardware, or your whole profile across. How to ›
- Interactive TV. Streams, commercials, and pages pop real, tappable controls on cue — vote, tap-to-buy, play along. The standard ›
- Hide Home Button. Clear the Home button off your canvas for a cleaner look — the gear takes over. How to ›
iOSiPhone & iPad
2.0.32
Build 54
iPhone and iPad, fully in the loop — notes, fleet sync, and Interactive TV, the same as everywhere else.
- Device Notes. Name and note any device; it's kept private on the device, never in the portable profile. FAQ ›
- Fleet Sync. Send your whole setup to another iPhone, iPad, Android, or TV over your own WiFi — nothing in the cloud. FAQ ›
- Interactive TV. The screen talks back — content pops real READYWARE controls on cue, right over what you're watching. The standard ›
- Hide Home Button. Hide Home for a cleaner unlocked canvas. FAQ ›
Android TVBig Screen
2.0.32
Build 56
The big screen joins in — step into your wallpaper, take a hand-off from your phone, and let content talk back.
- Step into your wallpaper. Tab down into your live website wallpaper and scroll it, then tab back to your buttons — no new approvals. How to ›
- Interactive TV on the big screen. Streams and pages pop real controls right over the show. The standard ›
- Receive from your fleet. Accept remotes and profiles pushed from a phone or tablet with one tap. How to ›
- Hide Home Button. The same cleaner-home option, on the TV. How to ›
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Interactive TV — The Screen Talks Back
Streams, commercials, and web pages pop real, tappable READYWARE controls on screen — on cue. Vote in a live show, tap-to-buy in a commercial, play along with a game, open a link that actually works. An open cue format, event-driven, no lock-in.
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One shared foundation — every build below shipped across iPhone, iPad, Android and TV. Buy once, get them all free.
AndroidPhone & Tablet
2.0.30
Build 46
Your whole house in your hand — the overlay floats over any app, live cams & streams play behind your buttons.
- Improved App-on-App overlay. Float your remotes over any app — tap through your wallpaper or cover a room solid, your call per screen.
- Expanded no-hardware control. LG & Samsung TVs, WiZ/LIFX/Govee bulbs and Sonos, direct over WiFi by IP.
- Smarter macros. One tap runs the whole room — IR, RF, web, MQTT, and app launch in sequence.
- Updated database. 1,000,000+ IR/RF codes, with new brands across TVs, fans, and RF gear.
iOSiPhone & iPad
2.0.28
Build 43
iPhone and iPad, fully loaded — every remote you build, the full database, and the online tools in your pocket.
- Improved live wallpapers. IP cameras, streams, and websites play full-screen behind your buttons on every canvas.
- Expanded smart-home control. HTTP, MQTT, and SwitchBot fire alongside your IR and RF in a single macro.
- Updated two-state & live state. Buttons show real on/off and live readings in your own colors.
- Updated database. 1,000,000+ IR/RF codes — the same profiles across iPhone, iPad, and the web viewer.
Android TVBig Screen
2.0.31
Build 49
The whole experience on the biggest screen — drive it with your TV remote, an air-mouse, or your phone.
- Added full TV-remote navigation. A big gold ring shows where you are; open a remote and you're already on the first button.
- Improved big-screen home. A data-driven dashboard of your favorites, rooms, remotes, and cameras.
- Improved living wallpapers. Your streams and cameras play behind your buttons, full-screen.
- Updated database. 1,000,000+ IR/RF codes — the same profiles you built on phone and tablet, on the TV.
Point and click your TV, lights, and Sonos — straight over WiFi. No blaster, no hub. And your buttons update in real time.
No‑hardware devices talk directly over your WiFi by IP: LG & Samsung smart TVs become point‑and‑click remotes, WiZ/LIFX/Govee bulbs and Sonos control by IP, and Live Updates (Push) flips a button the instant a device changes — even from the wall switch.
- Point‑and‑click TVs — no blaster. LG webOS & Samsung Tizen over WiFi — power, nav, volume, media, app launch. Same TV in two rooms = two entries by IP.
- Bulbs & Sonos, direct by IP. WiZ, LIFX and Govee lights and Sonos speakers — no bridge, no cloud account.
- Live Updates (Push) — real time. Shelly WebSocket or MQTT push flips a button the moment the device changes. Event‑driven, not polling.
- Set up in seconds; credentials stay on your device. Add each in Device Setup (one‑time on‑TV pairing for LG/Samsung); green ADDED‑ALREADY tag on scans.
- Nothing you built changes. Home Assistant stays for cloud‑only; everything new is opt‑in.
Run your whole PC from READYWARE — and the Web Viewer now shows live device state, right in your browser.
A new free PC Bridge turns any button into a keystroke, mouse click, typed text, or program launch on your computer — no install on Windows. And your browser Web Viewer now lights up speed‑selectors and shows live on/off device state, just like the app. The overlay Wake Button got a polish too — the top bar tucks away with everything else.
- Control your computer. Turn any READYWARE button into a PC keystroke, mouse click, typed text, or program / .bat launch via the free PC Bridge — Windows needs no install (Mac & Linux too). Build a full keyboard/mouse remote from the Signal Editor's WiFi tab. Fires in‑app and from the Web Viewer.
- A smarter Web Viewer. Speed‑selectors light up and open on the second tap, 2‑state buttons swap ON/OFF looks, and live device feedback shows real state — all in your browser, nothing to install.
- Wake Button polish. On overlay timeout the top back‑arrow and gear tuck away with everything else; tap your R and the whole layout snaps back.
- Nothing you built changes. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout works exactly as before — everything new is opt‑in.
Your live cameras stay up on timeout — and a Wake Button tucks your whole layout away until you tap it.
When the overlay goes idle it now keeps your wallpaper — a live door cam or stream keeps playing while only the buttons hide. And a new opt‑in Wake Button lets you run the overlay all day: on timeout everything tucks away and passes through to the app, leaving one styled R you place and design yourself. Tap it and your whole layout snaps back.
- Live cams stay on timeout. The wallpaper stays up — your door cam or stream keeps playing and only the buttons hide. The fix for "my cam vanished on timeout."
- The Wake Button (R). On timeout your whole desktop, folders, and remotes tuck away and the screen passes through to the app — just one R remains. Tap it and everything comes back.
- Design the R your way. Tap to place it (same spot on every screen), then style it in the full button editor — color, shape, icon, size, border.
- Folder & desktop keep‑or‑hide, per screen, matching what remotes already had. Everything opt‑in; nothing you built changes.
Float over any app your way — tap through your wallpaper, or make a room fully solid. Live cams and scrollable sites play right in the overlay.
The App-on-App overlay floats over any app your way, per screen: App behind lets the app show and taps pass through the clear parts of your wallpaper, or My wallpaper makes that room a solid 100% cover. Live cameras, streams, and even sites like Pluto play — and scroll — right in the overlay, sized straight from your wallpaper.
- App behind or My wallpaper — your call, per screen. Float over the app and tap through the clear parts of your wallpaper, or fully cover it as a solid 100% room. One switch, one screen at a time.
- Live cams, streams & scrollable sites in the overlay. Camera feeds, HLS/MP4 streams, MJPEG cams, and a website like Pluto play live while the overlay floats — and in My wallpaper mode you can scroll and tap the site right there.
- A see-through dial, per screen. A 0–100% control sets how solid each screen looks over the app — dial it down for a cloaked always-on look or up to fully solid.
- Your icons scale from your wallpaper, and a built-in aspect lock keeps every room full and landscape, cameras and all.
- Everything's opt-in. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout works exactly as before.
The App-on-App overlay grows up — everything your screens do, now floating on anything.
Speed Buttons and their selectors, your two-state ON/OFF looks, live device feedback, and even your biggest photo-rich profiles all work while your remote floats over Netflix, YouTube — anything. Taps land dead-on, and turning the overlay on and off never touches your wallpaper.
- Speed Buttons & selectors, now in the overlay. Arm a device and your whole dock switches to it; tap the lit selector again to open the full remote — the same one-dock magic you have on-screen, floating over any app.
- Your ON/OFF looks come along. Two-state toggle buttons and live device feedback now light up in the overlay too — a button shows your ON look when the device is on, and number/text readouts show the real value, right over Netflix.
- Big wallpaper profiles load and float. Your largest photo-rich profile now opens and shows in the overlay instead of shrinking to a strip at the top — no more trimming images to make it fit.
- Every tap lands true. Overlay touch targets now line up pixel-for-pixel with your buttons on every device — no more tapping just below the button to hit it.
- Your wallpaper stays yours. Turning the App-on-App overlay on and off no longer clears your desktop wallpaper — it's remembered and restored automatically.
- Rock-solid under the hood. The overlay now swallows any profile and any character — a stray learned code or an odd label can't blank it out anymore. See the Help guide and the FAQ.
- Everything's opt-in. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout works exactly as before — all the new pieces are additive.
Your one-dock Speed Buttons just got more powerful — Menu included, working everywhere.
Power, Volume, Channel, OK, the arrows... and now Menu — the last control most people still opened the full remote for. Tag it once and it follows whichever device you're driving. This build also polishes the App-on-App overlay and makes the free online tools noticeably smarter.
- Menu joins your Speed Buttons. Tag your real remote's Menu (Style → Speed Button Role → "menu"), drop a Menu button on your room dock (Other → Speed Button → "menu"), and it runs the armed device's menu — just like power and volume already do. Your dock can now fully drive any device in the room.
- Speed Buttons everywhere — including the App-on-App overlay. Float READYWARE over Netflix or YouTube and your Speed Buttons fire straight from the overlay and the web viewer. Set it up with a transparent layout and a timeout and you're using the app and don't even know it's there — until you tap your hotspot button and your entire App-on-App overlay layout appears. Load a "cloaked" profile from the community library to try it in seconds.
- The free online tools got a lot smarter. The Signal Editor and Signal Transporter now read the huge JP1 / RemoteMaster archive (NEC/NEC1/2/x, Panasonic, Sony, RC5, JVC, GI Cable), plus SmartIR, Tuya, ESPHome, and Sonoff RfRaw — and convert any of it to .irc, Flipper, Pronto, BroadLink, LIRC, or Global Caché. Coming from RemoteMaster or a pile of Pronto files? It all comes home.
- Freshly updated Help & FAQ. New quick-jump menus and how-tos — the always-on overlay setup, the folder-in-folder trick, and where to import or convert your codes. Browse the Help guide and the FAQ.
- Everything's opt-in. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout works exactly as before — all the new pieces are additive.
Speed Buttons — one set of controls, every device in the room.
Put a handful of buttons on your room photo and let them switch which device they run. Tap TV and they're your TV; tap Satellite and the same buttons are your satellite box. Tap the selector again and the full remote opens.
- Set it up in three steps. ① Tag each real remote's buttons with a role (Style → Speed Button Role). ② Give each dock button Other → Speed Button and pick the same role. ③ Add one selector per device (Other → Speed Selector).
- The active one lights up. Give a selector an "on" look (2-State Toggle) and it lights while it's the armed device — only ever one at a time.
- 5 buttons or 20 — your call. Different in every room. If the armed device lacks that role, just that one dims; the rest keep working.
- Everything comes along. IR, RF, macros, web commands — a speed button runs whatever the real remote's button does, from the right blaster.
- Fully opt-in. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout works exactly as before.
The online Signal Editor now reads, names, and repairs any IR code.
Paste a raw capture — a wall of numbers off any learner — and it tells you exactly what it is (NEC, Sony, Panasonic, RCA, Denon and more), then rebuilds it at perfect timing. Ten protocol families, real Denon & Marantz code-sheet support, and true any-format conversion. Free, in your browser, nothing to install.
- It decodes now. Drop in a messy learned signal and the editor names the protocol and its device/function — then one tap on Rebuild Clean turns a jittery capture into a flawless code.
- Every common protocol, encode and decode. NEC, Samsung, Sony, RC5, RC6, Panasonic, JVC, Sharp (which is also Mitsubishi), Denon, Denon-K, and RCA — each validated against real captures, with no dead options.
- Denon & Marantz code sheets, solved. Paste an "RCKSK" or "RCSHP" code — or the raw bit rows straight off Denon's PDFs — and get working Pronto, Flipper, BroadLink, or Home Assistant, with the real button names already filled in.
- Output that actually fires. Global Caché (iTach) codes now use true carrier-period timing, and Pronto uses the standard repeat convention — so what you copy out works on the real hardware.
- Re-skin in seconds. The Signal Transporter moves a whole remote's buttons and codes onto a new layout, auto-matches them by name, and now genuinely converts between every format — not just the labels.
Live device state — now in your colors.
When a button reads your device, its on/off look is yours — the colors, icon, shape, and label you design, not a fixed green and gray.
- Your on/off look, driven by the device. Design an ON look and an OFF look — the real device state flips between them.
- Readouts your way. Temperature, watts, humidity show as a live value on the label, in whatever color and size you choose.
- One place, one system. Toggle buttons and live feedback share the same look controls — press-to-flip if you have no device, real-state if you do.
- Clear setup guide. Help and FAQ spell out exactly what goes in each field, with ready-made settings for Shelly, Tasmota, and Home Assistant.
Your buttons can now see — live device state.
A button can read a device's real state and show it — on/off, temperature, watts, humidity — checked only when you open a screen, so there's no constant polling. RF codes also work inside macros now.
- Real device feedback. Point a button at a device (Shelly, Tasmota, Home Assistant, and more) and it shows the true state — on/off, or live values like 72°F, watts, CO₂, or humidity on the label.
- Reads only when you open a screen. Everything updates once on open, then it's quiet — no background polling or battery drain. A refresh (↻) button re-checks any time.
- RF in macros. A single macro can fire RF (fans, ACs) alongside IR, web commands, MQTT, and wallpaper switches.
- Fully opt-in. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout keeps working as before.
Two-state buttons, smarter macros, and device logins.
Buttons can hold two looks and flip on each press, macros reach much further, and buttons can sign in to devices that need a password.
- Two-state toggle buttons. Give any button an "on" look and an "off" look — different color, icon, shape, or label — and it flips on every press. See what's on at a glance.
- Macros that run the whole scene. One button can flip a light over the web (Shelly, WLED, Hue, Home Assistant…), publish MQTT, and open an app, website, or document — mixed with IR/RF and wallpaper steps. A toggle can even run different steps "when on" vs "when off."
- Sign in to your devices. Buttons and macros can log into gear that needs a password — Shelly, Tasmota, Home Assistant — with Bearer, Basic, Digest, or Tasmota-style auth.
- Nothing else changed. Every existing button, macro, transmitter, overlay, and timeout keeps working as before.
Switch your live wallpaper with a button — and tap right through it.
A button can switch your remote, folder, or desktop wallpaper to a different camera or website on the fly — even while a live stream is already playing — and the empty space around your buttons is interactive again.
- Switch cameras and sites on the fly. Drop a "switch wallpaper" button on any canvas and flip your live wallpaper to another security cam, YouTube, or dashboard with one tap — even when a stream is already running. Perfect for cycling between cameras.
- Tap through your remote again. On remotes with a website or live-camera wallpaper, taps on the empty space between your buttons reach the page behind — scroll, pan, and click the site under your controls — in both locked and unlocked mode.
- Every canvas, same behavior. Desktop, folders, and remotes all handle the live-wallpaper switch identically, so it works wherever you put the button.
- Nothing else changed. Your button timeouts, the App-on-App overlay, and every transmitter keep working exactly as before.
Tasmota WiFi IR — a new native transmitter that emits and learns.
Open WiFi IR blasters running Tasmota — the Athom Tasmota IR Controller (~$15) or any ESP flashed with Tasmota — now work natively over local HTTP. No cloud, no broker, no DRM.
- Emit any code, one tap. Pick a brand and model from the 950,000+ database and fire it through your Tasmota box — the same codes your BroadLink uses, converted automatically.
- It learns, too. Point a remote at the Tasmota receiver and capture the signal right in the Signal Editor — the only WiFi blaster besides BroadLink that learns (iTach and SwitchBot are send-only).
- Local and open. Talks straight to the device on your WiFi over HTTP. No cloud account, no hub, no DRM. Add it in Settings → Device Setup → Tasmota → enter the IP → Test → Save.
- Nothing else changed. BroadLink, iTach, USB-C, onboard, SwitchBot, and Bluetooth IR all keep working exactly as before.
App-on-App — your remote floats on top of everything.
Android — the READYWARE GUI layers over any app with true tap-through.
- True pass-through, finally. Float your desktop, folders, and remotes over Netflix, a browser, the clock — anything. Buttons and icons are tappable; empty space passes straight through to the app below. Every canvas, every icon, every button.
- The menu comes with you. The gear opens your full app menu, and the back arrow drops you right back onto the overlay — exactly where you were. In and out, no restarts.
- Smart timeout. Idle? The graphics fade so you can use the app below. One tap wakes them. It never counts down while you're actively using it or sitting in a menu, and re-opening always comes back awake.
- Opt-in and private. Off by default — turn it on in Settings. One standard "display over other apps" permission, nothing more. If you never enable it, nothing changes.
Smoother setup, sharper Photo-to-Remote.
A polish release — a cleaner, faster Settings screen and an improved Photo-to-Remote in the online builder, so turning a photo of your real remote into working buttons is quicker than ever.
- Refined Settings. A tidier, quicker-to-navigate Settings screen — same controls, easier to find.
- Improved Photo-to-Remote (online builder). Snap a photo of your real remote at readyware.net and lay out matching buttons more smoothly, with cleaner alignment on the canvas.
- Under-the-hood polish. Small reliability and performance tweaks across the app.
Mix IR and smart home in one tap — and re-home a whole remote in another.
Macros now fire HTTP, MQTT, and SwitchBot right alongside your IR and RF codes — and you can point an entire remote at a new BroadLink or blaster without touching a single button.
- Macros now blend IR and smart home in a single tap. One button can power on the TV over IR, dim your Hue lights over HTTP, run a SwitchBot scene, and publish an MQTT message — in order, with your own timing between each step.
- Direct HTTP control of your smart home and hubs. GET / POST / PUT to Philips Hue, Home Assistant, Homey, Hubitat, Node-RED, and anything with a local REST endpoint — Shelly relays and flashed Tuya (Tasmota / ESPHome) switches included.
- MQTT publishing, now with TLS. Send to any broker over
mqtt://or securemqtts://— drive Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, ESPHome and Node-RED straight from a button or a macro step. - SwitchBot, now inside macros. Drop a virtual-remote command or a full SwitchBot scene anywhere in a longer sequence.
- Smart-home actions fire from every surface. HTTP, MQTT, RF and smart-home buttons now behave identically on the desktop, in folders, on remote screens, and through the web viewer.
- Assign a whole remote to one device — in a tap. The new Send via device option in Edit Remote points every button in that remote at a chosen BroadLink or blaster, with no per-button editing. It only appears when you have more than one device, so single-device setups stay clean.
- Re-home everything after a hardware swap. Force all buttons to this device reassigns an entire remote at once — ideal when you move gear between rooms or upgrade a blaster.
- WiFi light switches, covered. Shelly and flashed Tuya switches run locally over HTTP; Kasa / Tapo work through Home Assistant.
- Unshakeable with bad input. A blank or wrong URL, key, or broker address simply can't crash the app — the step is skipped or fails quietly and the rest of your macro carries on.
Launch any installed app, from any button.
Ring, SmartThings, Home Assistant, SwitchBot, Hue, Alexa, Google Home, Nanoleaf, Roomba, Roborock and dozens more — one tap from any remote, folder, or the desktop.
- Pick from your actual installed apps. The picker scans your phone or tablet and lists every launchable app. Works on every canvas — desktop, folders, remotes, and inside macros.
- Manual deep-link entry for anything not in the list. Paste any app URL or Android intent link and test it before saving — Tuya devices, niche vacuums and exotic IoT gear all work this way.
- 23 smart-home apps built in. SwitchBot, SmartThings, Home Assistant, Ring, Nest, Hue, Alexa, Wyze, Arlo, Blink, Ecobee, LIFX, Nanoleaf, IFTTT, Tuya, Smart Life, Mi Home, Kasa, Wemo, Lutron, Roomba, Roborock — one tap, no URL hunting.
- Crash-proof launching. Dangerous URL types are rejected before the launcher sees them; a typo or a missing app gives a clear message instead of a freeze.
Live video, refined across every canvas.
IP cameras, NVR feeds, go2rtc bridges and live web streams now play smoothly as full-screen wallpapers behind your buttons — every remote, every folder, the desktop.
- Smart stream routing. The app auto-picks the best player for each URL: native engine for HLS / DASH / static video, inline browser video for go2rtc live MP4, dedicated MJPEG pipeline for motion-jpeg cameras, full WebView page for sites.
- MJPEG and live MP4 — first-class. go2rtc, Frigate, Shinobi, IP Webcam, MotionEye, ZoneMinder, bare IP cams — all play full-screen without conversion.
- Local-network HTTP, properly handled. LAN URLs like
http://192.168.1.100now load reliably without HTTPS — go2rtc, Frigate, Home Assistant, Hue bridge, camera web UIs all work. - RTSP and exotic stream URLs. Direct rtsp:// / rtmp:// / rtp:// / udp:// show a friendly placeholder with go2rtc guidance instead of a silent failure.
- Learn All wizard reads every label. Picks up Smart IR Label on every button so photo-style remotes show the actual name — "Power", "Vol +" — not "Unnamed Button". Transparent buttons get an outline in the preview.
- Crash protection across every stream format. Every URL is classified before any native player sees it. Bad URLs render a placeholder; the activity never goes to background.
Transparency, refined across every surface.
Photo to Remote wallpapers now blend cleanly with your desktop, folders, and other remotes — every device, every orientation.
- Buttons stay glued to the photo, on every device. The renderer reads each wallpaper's true pixel dimensions from its filename — no drift on Android tablets, no surprises after rotation, no guesswork when sharing .irc files between phones and tablets.
- Full image, every orientation. Photo to Remote remotes now letterbox cleanly. Tablet portrait no longer crops the top of the photo — the full remote is visible on phone, tablet, landscape, portrait, every time.
- Canvas Background color picker. Pick what shows through your photo's transparent margins — transparent to let the parent wallpaper through, black for a clean dark frame, or any of the 29 palette colors used throughout the app.
- Inline color and shape picker for blank buttons. Add Buttons → Single Blank Button now has 9 quick colors and two shapes right there — pick, tap, drop. Default gray rounded preserved.
- Hide Wallpaper on Timeout. Photo-style remotes can now fade out the photo along with the buttons. Toggle per remote. Decorative wallpapers keep the classic behavior.
- Size dial works on every preset. The button-size scaler now applies to the Single Blank Button too — 200% really means 200% everywhere.
Photo to Remote — in seconds, two ways.
Snap a photo on the web. Pick a template in the app. Either way, you're done in under a minute.
- Online Remote Builder — Photo to Remote, in seconds. The web builder at readyware.net/remote/online_editor.html got a one-click 📸 Photo to Remote button at the top. Drop a photo of any remote in as the wallpaper, right-click anywhere on the canvas to place transparent buttons over each visible button, drag to position, drag the corner to resize. Every button comes smart-labeled so the Smart IR Wizard auto-programs them straight from the 950,000+ code database.
- App — Photo to Remote template added to Create Remote. Tap Create Remote in the app and you'll find a fourth template choice alongside TV, Set-Top Box, and Blank: Photo to Remote. Pick it, name it, tap Create — you get a universal remote photo wallpaper with 32 transparent buttons pre-aligned over each visible button, all smart-labeled. Open the Smart IR Wizard and watch every standard button auto-fill.
- Three ways to start in the online builder. Choose Upload a Photo for any remote you have on hand, Use Generic Template for an instant universal-style remote, or Add to Current Remote to drop smart-labeled transparent buttons on top of any remote you've already built. The third path is perfect for landscape custom layouts where you just want to add wizard-ready buttons quickly.
- Transparent wallpaper baked into the app. The new template image ships inside the install package itself, so the feature works offline. No download, no fetch, no waiting.
- Right-click auto-label cycle in the online builder. While in Photo to Remote mode in the web editor, right-click on the canvas to choose between adding a blank transparent button or an auto-labeled one. The auto-label option cycles through 34 canonical button names in the order most remotes use them.
Faster to build. Easier to dial in.
The "add a button" experience, refined into a real workflow.
- Improved button-add picker — full transport, soft keys, and round keys. Add Buttons now has a complete Transport row (Skip Back, Rewind, Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Forward, Skip Forward) in Mute orange, four teal soft keys for hotkeys, and four soft-purple round keys for command rows.
- Built-in button-size scaler. A new Button Size dial at the top of Add Buttons steps from 50% to 200% in 10% increments. Bump up before adding to a tablet, scale down for a TV — the whole set lands at the size you wanted.
- Smart IR Wizard auto-fills the new sets. Every transport button comes pre-tagged with its smart label (Play, Pause, Stop, Rewind, Fast Fwd) so the wizard recognizes and programs them straight from the 950,000+ code database.
- Blank button is actually blank. The Single Button preset drops in with no placeholder label — style it, label it, or leave it clean.
- Improved Set Active flow across every transmitter type. Saved iTach devices now get a Set Active button on the row, matching BroadLink, USB IR, Onboard IR, and Bluetooth IR.
- Refined IR learning — clean waveform on every fresh button. Open the Signal Editor on a blank button and the waveform view starts clean, every time.
Smart Home, Bigger. Hardware, Open.
Every SwitchBot Hub. Bluetooth IR pairing. Plus open-hardware plans for a $8 DIY blaster of your own.
- Full SwitchBot Hub family — Mini, Hub 2, Hub 3, Hub Plus. One account, every hub, every virtual remote, every scene. Add the account once, your buttons fire SwitchBot commands across the family. Smart Matching, Select Manually, DIY remotes — all supported. Macros mix SwitchBot commands with IR signals, web hooks, app launches, and folder navigation on a single tap.
- Improved button picker remembers your color theme. Add Buttons now pulls the menu accent color so previews preview-true. Single Button, Number Pad, D-Pad, Volume, Channel, Power — all stay aligned with the canvas you're working in.
- Refined Bluetooth IR pairing flow. Discover, pair, and save Bluetooth IR dongles right inside Settings → Device Setup → Bluetooth. The transport works perfectly on both Android and iOS. Set Active, swap mid-session, every canvas honors the change.
- New: Build Your Own IR Blaster — open hardware, $8 in parts. A complete community build guide on readyware.com. ESP32-C3 SuperMini (or ESP8266 D1 Mini), one IR LED, a 3D-printed case, open-source BroadLink-compatible firmware. Smaller than a BroadLink RM Mini. No DRM. No vendor lock-in. The day you finish soldering, READYWARE finds it as a regular BroadLink device.
- Improved hardware honesty across the site. Updated help, FAQ, and main pages clearly point to the proven hardware paths: WiFi BroadLink, USB-C IR dongles, the new DIY route — plus the experimental Bluetooth IR for early testers.
The Size Dial You Didn't Know You Had.
Did you know? Changing your wallpaper size makes buttons and icons bigger or smaller — without changing the layout.
- Wallpaper size is your icon-size dial — now documented end-to-end. Smaller wallpaper image = bigger icons on screen. Larger wallpaper = smaller icons. Same layout, same button positions, different scale. Full reference chart for tablets, TVs, and phones in the new Style Guide tab — landscape and portrait both covered.
- Improved iTach saved-list — Set Active where you'd expect it. Multiple iTach devices on the same network? Tap the one you want, set it active, fire signals. Same row UI as BroadLink, USB IR, Onboard IR, and Bluetooth IR. One pattern across every transmitter type.
- Improved cross-device portability with stale-id fallback. Share an .irc remote built on one phone, load it on another phone with different saved transmitters? READYWARE picks up the right transmitter type automatically. Your buttons fire on the new phone too.
- Improved help and FAQ coverage. Both pages now link directly into the Style Guide for design tips, sizing references, and the open hardware guide.
Edit From Any Browser. Push to Every Device.
Build remotes on the big screen. They show up on the small one in real time.
- Edit your remotes in any web browser. Open the Web Viewer on a desktop, drag buttons around with a real mouse, edit labels with a real keyboard. The phone in the living room updates the moment you save.
- Improved live push to every paired device. Edit settings on one screen, see them apply on every screen connected to your account. Wallpapers, layouts, button positions, color themes — all synced.
- Improved scope-based sync. Per-remote settings sync to the remote. Per-canvas settings sync to the canvas. Per-account settings sync everywhere. No accidental overwrites of your living-room layout from your bedroom phone.
Transparent Backgrounds, Layered Right.
Open a remote on top of the desktop and you see the desktop right through it. Open one inside a folder and you see the folder.
- Improved transparent open-remote background. Open a remote with a transparent background and the canvas beneath it — desktop or folder — shows through naturally. Buttons live on the remote. Background lives on the canvas underneath. Both render perfectly.
- Improved overlay layering across all three canvas types. Desktop, folder, remote — each composes correctly with whatever sits behind it. Video wallpapers, photo wallpapers, solid colors, transparent stacks — all play nicely with the buttons up front.
- Improved touch passthrough on transparent layers. Tap a button on a transparent remote → IR fires. Tap empty space → that tap reaches the canvas underneath. Use your transparent remote on top of a video feed and the video keeps playing where the buttons aren't.
Headers Float. Wallpapers Stretch.
Headers stay where you can reach them. Wallpapers fill the screen they're on.
- Improved folder canvas header — pinned to the top, always reachable. The folder header floats above the canvas so it's always tappable, even with a tall remote layout filling the screen below.
- Improved wallpaper rendering across the full canvas. Live wallpapers, photo wallpapers, animated GIFs — every wallpaper type now fills the canvas under the header without weird offsets or scroll jumps.
- Improved canvas pass-through under scrollable areas. Even when a canvas scrolls, taps on empty space still fall through to the layer beneath when transparency is enabled.
Wake With a Tap. Stay Out of the Way.
Overlays that disappear when you don't need them — and come right back when you do.
- Improved overlay timeout-wake. Set your overlay to fade after a few minutes? It comes right back the moment you tap. No swipe-up, no relaunch, no losing your place.
- Improved cross-app overlay behavior. Watching Netflix, browsing photos, on a video call — the overlay floats above whatever you're doing and fires IR signals without stealing focus from the app underneath.
- Improved canvas wake gestures. A single tap brings a faded overlay back to full opacity instantly. Tap again on a button — IR fires.
One Layout. Every Screen.
Build it on a 7-inch tablet. Open it on a 95-inch TV. Same buttons in the same places.
- Portrait and landscape — both first-class. Flip your tablet sideways and the buttons stay where you put them. No reflow, no shuffle, no "oh that broke the layout."
- The remote you build is the remote everyone sees. Genuinely locked to the canvas you designed. Phone, tablet, or browser. Every time.
- RF learning got smarter on the first try. 315 MHz, 433 MHz, 868 MHz — finds the right band without you guessing.
- 250,000 new IR and RF codes added. Ceiling fans, RF outlets, blinds, motorized projector screens, garage doors, gates — the obscure stuff databases curated from spec sheets keep missing.
Every Browser. Every Camera. Every Canvas.
Wait — my browser is the remote? And my baby cam is the wallpaper?
- Every web browser is now a remote control. Open the Web Viewer on anything that renders HTML. Fire IR.
- Live video and stream wallpapers — across all three canvases. Desktop, folder, remote — set a different live feed on each. Kitchen tablet shows the front porch. Bedroom shows the baby cam. Garage shows the driveway. They all also fire IR.
- Web Viewer button timeout, reworked. Buttons fade — wallpaper stays visible and interactive.
- Overlay timeout stays active while you scroll a webpage wallpaper. Doesn't drop you out.
- Active Device card at the top of Device Setup. Big, clear, identical for USB, BroadLink, phone IR, or iTach.
One Remote. Every Blaster.
The bedroom TV fires upstairs. The living room fires downstairs. Same remote.
- Multi-transmitter support. Different buttons fire through different blasters. Bedroom TV through the upstairs BroadLink, living room TV through a USB blaster downstairs — all from one custom remote.
- Smart IR Wizard, one-tap programming. Pick brand, pick model, the code lands on the button. Done.
- Custom buttons, custom icons, custom wallpapers. Use any image you have.
- FAQ and Help docs polished. Hardware section, IR/RF section, troubleshooting flows for offline devices, and the "I don't have the original remote" path that funnels you straight into Smart IR.
The Universal Translator.
Free. In any browser. No account. People sell entire products that do less than this.
- The IR/RF Signal Editor went online. Started as an editor for the app. We put it on the web. Now it converts every IR format anyone's ever used — Pronto hex, LIRC, Flipper Zero, BroadLink, Global Caché, Arduino raw timings. Paste any of them in, get any of them back out. Free. No account.
- Database revival. An old archive of remote codes — partially corrupted, scattered, incompletely indexed — got rescued, deduplicated, normalized, and folded back in. Hundreds of thousands of codes returned to the wild.
- Live wallpapers go full URL. RTSP stream, HLS feed, HTTP camera, MP4 clip, YouTube live URL — point it at anything. Watch the front porch. Fire the porch light from a button on top of it.
- All features unlocked. Buy once. Everything included. No subscription. No upsell. No "premium tier" gating the parts you actually need.
Build a Remote in Your Browser.
No app. No account. Just drag, drop, save, fire.
- The Online Remote Builder. Sit at your desktop, open the Builder, drag and drop your buttons, drop in custom icons, set custom wallpapers, save it as an .irc file, send it to your phone, open it. Done. Same layout, same buttons, fired through your blasters at home.
- One file format — .irc — everywhere. Works in the app. Works in the Online Builder. Works in the Web Viewer. Same file. Every device. Public domain standard, not a proprietary lock-in.
- Smart Codes Wizard inside the Builder. Add IR codes directly while you're designing. Now backed by the largest database on the internet.
- BroadLink learning timing tightened. Fewer "did it learn?" double-presses on noisy WiFi.
- Universal screen fit. Works on every screen size. Demo profile reworked.
Floats on Top of Netflix.
Watching a movie? The remote stays right there. Change the volume. Kill the ceiling fan.
- System-Wide Overlay. READYWARE floats on top of any other app. Watching Netflix? Your remote overlay stays right there. Change the volume or turn off the ceiling fan without leaving the app you're in.
- Home Automation Bridge. Control Zigbee, Z-Wave, HomePro and other non-IR ecosystems side-by-side with your IR/RF devices. Built-in HTTP action bridge to Home Assistant, SmartThings, or Hubitat.
- Smart IR Wizard — one-tap program. Tap any button, run the wizard, pick your brand, code is instantly assigned, saved, ready to fire.
- Default Remote Templates — improved portrait and landscape layouts. Flip the tablet anytime, buttons stay perfectly on screen.
- Adaptive Device Setup. Big, clear Active Device card at the top — works the same no matter which transmitter type you're using.
- Cross-browser polish. Safari, Firefox, Edge, Brave, the weird ones too. If it can render HTML, it can be a remote.
Multi-Device. Smart IR Upgrade.
One tap. Different transmitter. The remote doesn't care which one is in the room.
- Active Device Switching. Set any transmitter as your active device on the fly. BroadLink, USB IR, built-in phone IR, iTach WiFi — one tap to switch.
- Multi-Transmitter Support. Assign different buttons to different transmitters from the same remote.
- USB IR Blaster — verified plug-and-play. FLIRC USB, Irdroid v3, USB UIRT, generic HID, CH341/CH340, CP210x.
- RF Learning expanded. Latest BroadLink RM4 Pro firmware revisions. 315 MHz, 433 MHz, 868 MHz bands.
- Smart IR/RF Database crossed 600,000 free codes — already the largest free IR/RF library on the web.
Web Viewer Goes Live.
Your wallpaper stays. The buttons fade. The remote disappears into the screen.
- Web Viewer — website wallpapers now load correctly in the browser.
- Button timeout hides icons; wallpaper stays visible and interactive underneath.
- Overlay timeout stays active while you scroll webpage wallpapers.
- 80,000+ new IR signals added — ONN, Coby, and hundreds of new brands.
- All features unlocked. Buy once, everything included. No subscription.
The Overlay Update.
Control from any browser. Real wallpapers. Real time.
- Web Viewer — control from any browser with real wallpapers in real time.
- USB IR blaster support with manual add option.
- Canvas scaling — fits any screen size automatically.
- Improved demo profile with GIF wallpapers.
- Profile load no longer affects premium status or Web Viewer.
- 350,000+ IR signals — already the largest database of downloadable remotes on the internet.
174,000 Codes Recovered.
An old, almost-lost code archive came back from the dead.
- 174,000 codes recovered from a partially corrupted archive and folded back into the database. The salvage effort that's still going.
- Web Viewer — browser control with real wallpapers in real time.
- Canvas scaling fixed — now fits any screen size automatically.
- Database total now 240,000+ codes — and the salvage operation is still going.
The .irc Standard. The Beginning.
The world needed an open IR standard. Now it has one.
- The .irc file format. READYWARE .irc files store the raw physics of IR and RF signals — pulse timings in microseconds — making every remote you build immune to hardware changes, company shutdowns, and platform lock-in. Forever.
- Full custom canvas IR and RF remote control — both Smart and Learning. One canvas. Every signal type.
- Electronic Personification. We didn't sit down and say "let me build a Windows IR blaster." We built a web remote — Windows compatibility just showed up, because browsers exist on every device. We didn't say "let me build a multi-room intercom." We built a remote that runs on any tablet, phone, or browser — the intercom showed up, because microphones exist. We didn't say "let me build a security camera monitor with controls." We built a live wallpaper — the camera feed showed up, because URLs exist. Every one of those things is something somebody else built an entire product around. Spent years on it. Charged a subscription. Ours just has it. Because the device already had it. We just got out of the way.
READYWARE updates are free for life. Buy once, get every future version. Updates deliver automatically through Google Play and the App Store — including every build above and every one to come. No subscription. No upsell. No "premium tier."