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A modern annoyance of the internet is advertising.

Touchscreen devices, smartphones, are even more frustrating when multiple swipes are needed to get to the information we want.

Samsung Sound Tower Remote Codes AH59-02733B AH59-02692 AH59-02615E

IR Remote control codes should be Open Source.

I recently acquired a pair of Samsung Sound Tower Speakers.

They are reasonable for a set of speakers, but the lack of tactile feedback on the touch control menu made me go a little bonkers. I ordered a remote, but it isn't quite agreeable to use : low power, so the codes are rarely read by the Sound Tower unless I'm very close to the speakers. Yes, I have a new battery.

I contacted Samsung for the codes, but was instructed to buy a new remote. Barely what I wanted, but I cannot blame the customer support personnel for not being given the codes.

Here are the codes that I recorded from a  AH59-02733B remote. These codes, as I was told, should be equivalent to AH59-02615E.

Source remote :

 Remote codes :


Power On   CA31DA45
Source        17112D07

Volume +   CF2F9DAB
Mute           123CD34B

Volume -           B2BBAC69
Loop/Repeat     3CEB5F42

Back track         B53DCEA6
Play Pause         28DE45AA
Forward Track  1E3D4782


Sound Effect      F9F925C3
Sound ((o))        C0CDDA6
Bluetooth Power D65A38A

( the following were recorded, but I could not get the Sound Tower to react accordingly)
Back                   879B92C2
Sound Control   BF1BC226
Forward             46868606

The double edged sword of slow Internet

What is there to celebrate about a slow internet connection? Nothing at all really - we all want things as fast as possible. However, when reading an article, or trying to write this post, the speed of my connection is irrelevant.

The good old days were horrible : turn the computer on, make coffee, hope it had finally booted up, fire up the modem(internal or external), and hear the musicality of the connection tone to link up with your gateway over dial-up. The connection was slow, but you could cut out the images, the web pages were ugly, but they loaded. Video was limited to animated GIFs, and the rare webcam felt like the future was now.

Move on 25 years later, dial-up feels like an injustice and that nothing can be done without the Internet. This might as be an entry in my diary. As much as it is great to have access to large amounts of data at a high rate, there is something to be said about the benefits of a slow connection :
- more writing
- more reading
- less scrolling aimlessly
- less time in front of the screen

(So much for buying the boxed version of the game...8 hours instead of 80)