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Horizon TV remote control app for iOS

  • 13-08-2013 7:59pm
    #1
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,498 ✭✭✭✭


    This relates to the Horizon digital box, not the Horizon TV service on the web.

    The app appears to have been launched for Irish customers yesterday, the iTunes app store version history says that V2.1 was launched on Aug 12th and includes support for Irish customers.

    The app give you Horizon remote control functionality on your iPhone/iPad/iTouch provided that you have a Horizon box and a broadband subscription and the Apple device is connected to the wi-fi network.

    When you start the app you have to login using your UPC userid & password, initial screens are in landscape mode only regardless of how you are holding your device. It then does some setting up and will inform you that if you hold the device in portrait node it will give you the remote control functionality so you can control the Horizon box from your Apple device. The remote control screen shows you the basic remote functions and works as intended.

    However when in landscape mode the app insists on playing a TV channel and according to the UPC support people, there is no way to switch this off. In my case this means that if I tilt the device slightly or lay it flat on the coffee table, I start to hear a TV channel which I don't want and it's obviously chewing up my battery.

    Worse, if I then disconnect the Apple device from the wi-fi network without doing a clean close of the app, I then can't use the regular remote to change channels by direct channel number entry and the only fix for this is to flip the on/off switch at the back of the box which won't make you very popular if there's others in the house using the network.

    Install at your own risk, don't say you weren't warned....

    https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/horizon-tv-remote/id532085851?mt=8


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  • #2
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    Yeah, it's annoying that you can't turn off the streaming on the iPhone/iPad. It's a handy feature to have, but also a bit pointless if all you want to do is control the Horizon.

    Also, they mention on the App Store, you can't connect to the Horizon box if the old Horizon app is running in the background. Make sure you kill that and the Remote app should sync fine.

    It works great on my iPad, but on the iPhone it keeps quitting after showing the intro animation, will try restarting the iPhone and trying again.


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