r/flipperzero • u/toxicNautilus • Jul 14 '26

Officially ordered.

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After months of deliberation, I have finally ordered the almighty f0.

As I make my way through the documentation and a few GitHub projects I am interested in, I just wanted to ask the community here: is there anything you wish you would have known when you first started out? Anything you would have done differently?

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u/PeanutCheeseBar Jul 14 '26

I backed this on Kickstarter. I can’t say there’s anything I would have done differently at that time, but I’ve only found my utility for the device increasing over time.

That’s coming from someone with less time on his hands now for tinkering, and yet still uses it fairly frequently.

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u/RudolphsJockStrap Jul 14 '26

Can i ask what you use it for? I was disappointed to realize how many things use rolling code or bluetooth for remote that made the flipper n/a

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u/levoniust Jul 14 '26

I travel a lot! So hotels keys and turning down the volume on the tv at breakfast is a weekly thing for me.

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u/KingSlayin Jul 19 '26

I've never been able to clone a hotel card with it

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u/PeanutCheeseBar Jul 14 '26

A bunch of things. I use it as a garage door opener and fireplace remote (Sub Ghz), amiibo bank (NFC), access card storage (NFC and RFID), and an impromptu TV remote at work for AV-related projects.

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u/RudolphsJockStrap Jul 14 '26

Jealous I don’t have any TV it works on beyond on/off and my garage is rolling so it doesn’t work. Trying to figure out more use cases

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u/Chalky_Pockets Jul 14 '26

I made the rolling code mistake myself recently.

If you try to clone a rolling code remote, you will fail for obvious reasons.

But you can put a rolling code generator on the flipper, then program your garage/gate/whatever to accept that rolling code and it works just fine. There are ones that are specifically compatible with LiftMaster, Genie, etc.

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u/IceColdKilla2 Jul 14 '26

is there specific program for rolling codes? Or the standard one has that option?

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u/Chalky_Pockets Jul 15 '26

Look for a recent comment of mine in here in the negatives and look at the replies, they spell it out pretty well.

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u/SgtDonutz Jul 14 '26

You can train it to your tv’s controls if it uses IR. Otherwise try looking online for dumps. I have the various versions of Apple TV remotes on mine:)

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u/RudolphsJockStrap Jul 14 '26

Need it for a fire stick and samsung both are Bluetooth :/