Universal remote · Jaipur

Universal remote in Jaipur. Every remote in the house, on every phone.

One blaster per room learns your AC, your TV, the set-top box and the music system. After that they are on your phone, and on your family's phones too. The appliance does not need to be a smart appliance.

That is the part people underestimate. A fifteen-year-old air conditioner works exactly as well as a new one, because the blaster is simply doing what the handset did.

₹2,500 – ₹6,000 per room Works with appliances you own Fitted in an afternoon

A small black cylindrical IR blaster with a blue indicator light, sitting on a wooden side table in a warmly lit living room. A wall-mounted air conditioner and a television are visible behind it, and three old handsets lie in a pile in the foreground.

Why this one surprises people

Your old AC is already
a smart AC.

Almost every air conditioner, television, set-top box, projector and music system sold in the last thirty years is driven by an infrared handset. The handset does nothing clever. It flashes a pattern of light at the appliance. A blaster flashes the same patterns from a small box on a shelf.

Which means the upgrade path nobody sells you is: keep the appliance. You do not need a new air conditioner to control the air conditioner from your bed. At ₹2,500 – ₹6,000 a room, this is by a distance the cheapest thing on our price list, and per household it is the one that gets touched most often.

It is also the one that changes who holds the remote. There is exactly one handset in most living rooms, and it lives wherever the last person left it.

It learns what you already own

We point your existing handsets at the blaster and it records them, button by button. Nothing is replaced and nothing is thrown away. Your old remote keeps working alongside it.

Everyone in the house gets it

Not just the phone that set it up. Your partner, your children, your parents, the person staying in the guest room. This is the actual reason households like it.

It joins the scenes

Once the AC is on the system, "evening" can dim the lights, draw the curtains and set the AC to twenty-four in one instruction. Instead of three, one of which needs a handset nobody can find.

The two honest limits

Infrared cannot see
through walls.

Every complaint anybody has ever had about an IR blaster comes back to one of two facts, and both are physics rather than product quality. We would rather you knew them before you buy than discover them in week two.

Neither is a reason not to fit one. Both are reasons to fit it properly, in the right place, with realistic expectations about what it can tell you.

One blaster per room, with line of sight

Infrared is light. It bounces off walls a little, but it does not go through them, round corners, or out of a closed cabinet. A blaster in the living room will not operate the bedroom AC. We work out placement at the survey and test every appliance from where the box will actually sit.

It talks, it does not listen

A handset sends commands and gets nothing back, and neither does a blaster. So if somebody turns the AC off with the original remote, the app may still believe it is on. We set up scenes to send absolute commands rather than toggles, which fixes this in practice. But the app cannot truly know the state of an IR appliance, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something.

Wi-Fi for the phone, not for the blast

Reaching the blaster from your phone needs the network up. The blaster reaching the appliance does not. Scheduled routines that live on the hub keep firing through a broadband outage; the app on your phone is what stops working.

What the price includes

The blaster, placed and tested where it can actually see the appliances
Every handset in that room learned and labelled
The app set up on every phone in the house that wants it
Alexa linking for the appliances, if you want it
Two scenes written with you at handover
First-year cover on top of the manufacturer warranty

What it does not include

A second blaster for another room, unless quoted
Appliances that use Bluetooth or radio handsets rather than infrared
Anything inside a closed cabinet without a repeater
Guaranteed on/off state feedback, because infrared cannot report back
A new socket where the blaster needs to sit

Asked at every survey

The questions,
answered plainly.

How much does an IR blaster cost in Jaipur?

One IR blaster per room costs ₹2,500 – ₹6,000 fitted. It plugs into a socket, so there is no civil work and a whole house is usually done in an afternoon. It sits with every published price on the site.

One unit per room learns your AC, TV, set-top box and music system, and puts all of them on every phone in the house.

What is an IR blaster?

An IR blaster is a small device that learns the infrared codes your existing remotes send, then repeats them on command. It turns the handsets you already own into something every phone in the house can use.

It does not replace your appliances and it does not replace the original remotes. Both keep working exactly as they did before.

Does a universal remote work without internet?

Partly, and the split is worth knowing. Reaching the blaster from your phone needs the network up. The blaster reaching the appliance does not. The same split applies to everything else in the house when the broadband drops.

An infrared handset sends commands and gets nothing back, and neither does a blaster. So if somebody turns the AC off with the original remote, the app will not know.

Will it work with my fifteen-year-old air conditioner?

Almost certainly yes, and this is the main reason to fit one. If the AC came with an infrared handset, the sort you have to point at the unit, then the blaster can learn it. Age is irrelevant; a 2010 split unit is no harder than a 2025 one.

The exceptions are appliances driven by Bluetooth or radio handsets, which you can spot because they work without pointing. Bring your handsets to the survey, or photograph them and send them over, and we will tell you before you commit.

Do I need one in every room?

One per room that has appliances you want to control, because infrared will not pass through a wall. The order we recommend applies here too. Most households do the living room first, add the main bedroom once they have seen the point, and never bother with the rest.

There is no hub-and-spoke arrangement that avoids this, and anyone offering one is describing something else.

Can my parents use it without a smartphone?

Yes, and they should not have to learn anything. Their existing handsets keep working exactly as they always did, for the same reason every smart switch still works by hand. The blaster sits alongside them, it does not replace them.

If you want a physical control that is simpler than the original handset, that is our bedside and accessible control work rather than this page, and the two are usually fitted together.

Smart switchesLights and fans on the wall, so scenes can reach both at once. Everything we installThe full list, with published bands where we have them. What it costsThe cheapest line on our price list, alongside the rest.

Four ways in

Most people are not
ready to book a survey.

That is completely reasonable for a purchase this size. So here are three smaller steps that still get you a real answer, and one that gets you a price.

A Jaipur family home seen from across the street at dusk, warm light in two windows and the porch, a water tank on the parapet against the last blue of the sky. — Whatever you decide, you should be able to leave with a number

Lowest effort

Send me the price list

One message on WhatsApp, and you get the band sheet back. Every package and add-on, with its working range. No call, no form.

Message on WhatsApp Two minutes

Send a photo of your switchboard

Open the plate, photograph the wiring, send it. We will tell you whether you have a neutral wire. That single fact moves your price more than anything else.

Send a photo Ten minutes

Talk it through on a call

Ring us and describe the house. We will tell you honestly whether what you want is a ₹40,000 job or a ₹6,00,000 one before anybody drives anywhere.

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