Gyration GYR4101CKUS Air Music Remote with Compact Keyboard

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Product Feature

• The Air Music Remote enables you to navigate, play media, and take complete control of your digital music library from the comfort of your couch using RF technology without line-of-sight limitations and a range of up to 100¿ range (30m).
• The back lit LCD screen makes it easy to navigate through your entire music library and take control of your iTunes or Windows Media Player content on your computer.
• The infrared universal learning remote provides you with control of up to three other audio / video electronic devices and includes an extensive remote code library of components to select from.
• The Microsoft Green Button allows you to activate Microsoft¿s Windows Media Center interface with the press of a button plus shortcuts buttons launch My Videos, Mail, Web, My Radio, and Favorites
• Portable Compact Keyboard - Gyration �s compact keyboard has an ergonomic, portable design with protective cover. The keyboard features 88 whisper quiet keys plus 15 hotkeys for Internet, e-mail and media access.

Product Description

With Gyration¿s intelligent Air Music Remote featuring MotionSense, the world just got a little bit easier to navigate.No strings, no wires, no tricks, no gimmicks � just better technology allowing a more comfortable, portable mouse to operate in the air or on the desk.Take control of your applications with a flick of the wrist.The Gyration Air Music Remote combines the functionality of an In-Air Mouse with a Media Center PC remote and Universal IR control.It¿s the perfect companion for home entertainment and PC convergence, offering complete access to your iTunes or Windows Media music from up to 100 � away with RF technology and built-in LCD screen.The remote is Microsoft Green Button certified and includes the one touch access to the Windows Media Center interface.The IR Universal remote allows you to control three A/V electronic components.The Gyration Air Music Remote with MotionSense, a gyroscopic subsystem containing sensory devices to sense motion, allows you to take control with natural in-air hand motions.It provides five degrees of freedom and 360 � roll compensation to deliver any rolled orientation and produces true X-Y moon, dynamic drift compensation, and drift correction during motion.Use natural and comfortable wrist movements to take control of your iTunes or Windows Media Player content on your computer. The back lit LCD screen makes it easy to navigate through your entire music library.Interference free 2.4 GHz RF allows you to take mouse control from up to 100 feet away with no line of sight restrictions.Enjoy optimum control of your entertainment system with the universal IR learning capabilities which can control other consumer electronic components.Gyration� s compact keyboard has an ergonomic, portable design with protective cover.The keyboard features 88 whisper quiet keys plus 15 hotkeys for Internet, e-mail and media access. Technical Support - Phone: 1-888-340-0033 E-Mail: support@gyration.com.

Gyration GYR4101CKUS Air Music Remote with Compact Keyboard Review

Well, I've had this product for about a week now. Enough time to pass judgement in my opinion. I certainly have had some issue, but like the heading says, they're hit and miss.

First, what I like. The Keyboard is comfortable, and comes with a cover which snaps to the top or bottom of the keyboard depending on whether or not you are using it or not. That's a good thing to help keep dust and potential spilled beverages off of it. I have no serious complaints about it. The remote on the other hand is a different story. What I like about the remote is that it does not require drivers to act as a mouse. This is a huge benefit because after failing to reinstall Windows XP, I tried Ubuntu (linux), and was happy to see the hardware run without drivers. Before I erased XP from the computer, I did get a chance to try the air music feature. It's neat. But it did crash on me once. To be fair, that's probably the result of XP just being glitchy. I'm going to give the Ar Music Software the benefit of the doubt here.

And now for the criticism. I really really really wanted to love this product, but the remote's functionality (or lack there of) is what bothers me. First off, the unit did NOT ship with an instruction manual, a problem I had read about in another online review before buying. But that reviewer reassured me that all the necessary programming information could be pulled from a PDF instruction manual from the Gyration website. Their site did not have the instructions for this exact product, and thus I tried the programming codes from their lesser model with horrid results. Basically I didn't have the right information. After the programming instructions didn't work I tried to use the remote's "learning" feature. Of all the things that could go wrong, I didn't expect this to fail. But it did. Not all the time, just most of the time. Imagine being able to teach the remote half the number keys from your TV remote, then having it refuse to learn more. I kid you not, this literally happened. Frustrated I contacted technical support and explained pretty much the whole story to this point. They never addressed the remote's learning issues, but they did send me the proper instructions in PDF. To some degree I felt like my problems were solved. But after the remote successfully accepted a code for my DVR, it didn't have a button for the commercial skip (probably the most important key on any DVR remote). So I tried to ammend the programming by teaching it the commercial skip. But all attempts were met with "learn key failed". Irritated, I tried again to teach the remote commands from my other remote's, but I was only greeted with "learn key failed". Now please keep in mind that while performing the learn key technique, the process will timeout if you take too long to perform the operation. That is how I know the remote was receiving the signal from my other remotes. Because the moment I pressed the button on my old remote, the Air Music Remote responded by displaying "learn key failed." By this point I am super frustrated! I e-mailed technical support again, this time explaining that I keep getting this "learn key failed" response. Well, my first email to Gyration was replied to in one day. But this second email was sent the Thursday before Good Fiday. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and waited till the following Monday (4-13-09) to expect a response. It never came. So here I am with a good wireless keyboard, and OK remote mouse which is a pathetic excuse for a "universal" remote. So take this review for what you will. I gave it a 3 because it does the bare minimum of what I expect the product to do. I would have liked to give it a 5, but unless someone from Gyration can fix the "learn key failed" problem, I just don't see it happening. And if the product was just defective, why wouldn't they have just emailed me return instructions and sent me a new one?

If Gyration gets back to me and helps get this thing working properly, I will gladly alter this review as necessary (assuming Amazon allows edits). Until that time, this is an accurate depiction of the problems I have encountered with this product in the past week.

Added note: This entire review was entered using the Air Music Remote and Keyboard (GYR4101CKUS)

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