Wireless MCU supports ZigBee Remote Control 2.0

The ZigBee Remote Control 2.0 standard enables consumers to easily control their smart home system with their new remote control. This release offers the most advanced standards available, enhancing the experience of controlling smart lighting, HAVC, security, home monitoring and set-top boxes through a uniquely secure and high performing remote control.

With the ZigBee Remote Control 2.0 and NXP's ultra low power MCUs, customers can securely access essential features, including:

• Validation based binding to ease the paring process by eliminating the need for involvement, i.e. a button press, on the consumer equipment;
• Binding proxy for quick binding with a device or a group of devices with assistance of alternative means (e.g. UPNP, HDMI-CEC, NFC, barcodes);
• IR code upload to dynamically configure IR codes for hybrid IR-RF remote controls;
• Standards based two-way communication heart beat to enable ‘find my remote’ feature and upload of new firmware image and meta data;
• Dynamic re-mapping of remote control keys/commands by consumer equipment;
• HID command bank for the most common ZigBee Input Device standard use-cases;
• Enhanced security enabling security key update after a successful binding.