Toddler Video Remote for PC Video Player

Step 2 Configure VLC Media Player

First create a playlist of movies in VLC.

If you want, you can save this playlist, associate it with VLC if this hasn't been done already and put a link to the playlist in your startup, so that the player will automatically start when windows starts up.

Then open Preferences and set VLC to start in full screen.

Next, open the hotkey preferences and change the hotkeys to the numbers on the keypad that you plan to use with the VLC media player. Initially I was unable to set the keys to numbers, but after upgrading to the latest VLC player, I was able to do so.

Now is the time to test your numerical keypad to see if it will work with your configuration.

This was also the point where I connected the laptop, monitor and speakers.

Comments

[bwente]

Great project!

But I think the controls could be a little friendlier for a toddler. Red stop sign or a green smiley face. Although I guess it is never to early to teach children arrow symbols.

[Read Head]

There is a huge remote control at CVS. It's about a foot long and the buttons are huge. It costs $10. I think it was made for the elderly or maybe just as a joke? One thing is for sure, you can't lose it!

[Goodhart]

Yeah, we recently got one for a parent that kept misplacing his.

Here is about what it looks like:

[killerdark]

I agree. Bigger buttons, preferably with icons ON the button and colored buttons would have been better. But the only bigger buttons that would be big enough to paint on that I could find cost $15 and up (each). The buttons you see in the project are $1 each. Play / Pause on this remote is one button (just like on a DVD/CD remote which is obviously what I copied) These functions could have (perhaps should have) been split into two separate buttons and that would have allowed for color coding Play and Pause.

[mman1506]

at a local store they have big light up buttons that you can put a picture in for 1.95. i built somthing simlar except for flight sim controls