I received a review unit of the MiCommand Control It All Remote for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The Control It All Remote solution includes a Bluetooth transceiver and the free Control it All App downloadable from the AppStore.

The Control It All Remote Transceiver is about the size of a wallet and has a very nice, modern, gloss-black design. An AC power cable is included in the packaging and no batteries or additional hook-up is required. The Control It All Transceiver pairs easily with your iDevice by Bluetooth and may be paired with up to 8 iDevices in your home and communicate with any 4 of those devices at the same time. You may also use multiple transceivers in different rooms of your home for multi-room operation.

Bluetooth communications allow you to have reliable control operation from your iDevice from as far as 30’ away from the transceiver – even if there are walls, floors or other obstacles in the way. Line of sight is not required. The transceiver receives the Bluetooth signal and transmits an IR signal compatible your home theater equipment. In fact, MiCommand offers more than 57,000 codes and IR learning capability to ensure that it will work with most available equipment.

On the rear of the transceiver is a 3.5mm headphone jack which is not currently being used in the base MiCommand. But, it was designed there for a reason and we just learned that there is a new unit coming out with a feature called AirDock that will allow you to connect speakers to this port and stream Bluetooth music from you iPhone.

Setting up the MiCommand Control It All Remote was a pleasure and the entire process took less than 15 minutes in a simple living room with 4 devices. The first step is pairing the iDevice with the Transceiver via Bluetooth. If you have ever paired a Bluetooth headset with a cell phone the process is exactly the same. If Bluetooth is completely new to you will be happy to know that this process is much easier than WiFi installations and offers many of the same wireless benefits.

Once the devices are paired I found it easiest to program my devices while holding the Transceiver right in front of my AV gear. I feel more comfortable completing the set-up first and then finding an ideal placement location for reliable IR blasting from the transceiver and recommend the same process for all our products. When you add devices to the Control It All Remote you may need to test a few different signals and it is best to eliminate all other potential problems that may affect reliable transmissions.

It took just a few minutes to program the App with the device, brand, and codes I need for my TV, Blu-ray Disc, AV Receiver and Tivo box. The App was great in quickly finding the proper codes because it shuffles through Power On and Power Off Test Codes automatically until you find one that works. The entire IR code database is stored in the App as opposed to other solutions that download codes as needed so response is very fast and many codes may be tested in just seconds.

Once the codes were programmed I was equally impressed by the versatility of the App. The Control It All Remote automatically programmed device pages, Activity pages with the most common function for Watch TV, Watch Video, etc., and even a unique Eye Free View. The Eyes Free is a reliable, gesture-controlled mode that can be accessed from the Activity screens with a simple shake of the iPhone. The multi-touch gestures include volume control, swipe to change channels, two-finger push/pull to navigate guide pages and more. The Eye Free mode is a channel surfer’s dream!

After you use the MiCommand Control It All Remote in one room you will want to control every TV in the house the same way. Great news! You may add MiCommands in multiple rooms, and use multiple iPads, iPods and iPhones to access the transceivers. Each transceiver may be paired with up to 8 devices with an active connection to any 4 of them at a single time.

This multi-device, and multi-room capability is going to be very handy when I tell you about the new AirDoc feature being introduced. In the next few weeks MiCommand will be releasing an expanded version called the Control It All Remote with AirDoc.

AirDoc adds wireless music streaming to the popular Control It All Remote making it the only universal remote and wireless music streaming solution available in one. Just plug the mini-jack output from the Control It All with AirDoc to any pair of multimedia speakers and you can easily stream music from your iPhone anywhere in your home. Your iPhone wirelessly streams music over Bluetooth A2DP to the Control It All Transceiver unit. A2DP is a Bluetooth profile specifically designed for high fidelity music streaming. The Transceiver sends the received music stream to your stereo or speaker system via the Transceiver’s 3.5mm audio jack. The system easily supports music streaming from multiple iPhones. Switching is simple: once the music is paused or stopped, the system is open to streaming from another iPhone, iPod, or iPad.  Picture you friends playing DJ by sharing the play list. Music becomes social again.

We’re so excited about the new AirDoc feature that we can’t wait for these premium transceivers to ship and we don’t think you should either. That’s why we put together this special promotion that allows you to buy the Control It All Transceiver today at the low $95 price and get a FREE upgrade to AirDoc when it’s shipped! So hurry… that’s a 33% savings when you order now!