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Qmote S Remote Button for Smartphones and Devices - REVIEW
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May 30, 2025
Oh sure, you can figure out how to push the button on your phone when you want to take a selfie, but how much more cool to have a remote button! Not only that, but with the Qmote S the button can also control all sorts of other features on your Android or iPhone smart phone. When it works. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ runs the Qmote S through its paces and finds that there are some features that are reliable -- and very cool! -- while other sometimes work, sometimes don't. And it's so darn disappointing... Learn more: http://www.qblinks.com/
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a keychain fob that controls everything
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on your smartphone well kind of Dave
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Taylor here and this time I'm looking at
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a guitar pick wow it's a little thick to
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be a guitar pick specifically this is
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the cue mote and this is actually a
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remote button that you pair via
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bluetooth to your smartphone now I have
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it paired to my iPhone 7 and core
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functionality let's have this looking at
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itself so now in an inception II sort of
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way you can see my camera set up and I
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push the button
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and it took a picture that's really like
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the coolest single feature of this is
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that it's just a nice little remote but
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it actually has a lot more features
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because the guys behind it said oh if we
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can do that there's a lot we can do so
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it actually has up to 10 different
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customizable actions so you can do dot
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or dot dot or a long and a short it's
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like learning Morse code but I
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programmed different things for example
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here's one you'll really like is ever in
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a meeting where you wish you get out so
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watch the phone I'm gonna have a fake
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phone call come in by pushing it one two
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three times and here it is and in fact
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it even says Oh school I got to take
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this call it's from school but it's not
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it's a fake call this thing triggers
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that event how cool is that
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so comes with its own app and I will
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tell you if you have one of these super
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important that you run the upgrade
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occasionally because the firmware in
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this they keep changing because here's
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the bad news doesn't work very reliably
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and so I found this to be sort of an
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exercise in frustration is from the
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perspective of having it work as a
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remote trigger for my camera
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that's perfect a hundred percent of the
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time that works but you have to have the
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app running for any other functionality
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to work and sometimes it works and
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sometimes it doesn't and so an example
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of this is that I have it set with two
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dots or taps would even want to call it
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with
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- it should have volume at minimum let's
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see if it works okay
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did anything happen there let me do it
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again so nothing happened if I do one
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then I'm gonna get a volume event but
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that's because that's how it's doing the
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camera trigger right because if you
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think about it if you're taking a
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picture you're actually using the volume
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up/down as your camera shutter control
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so this is one of these devices where if
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you pick it up just as a remote trigger
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for your camera then you'll be happy
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because it works really well and it has
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the potential to do all these other cool
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things you can control music play pause
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you can use it as a phone locator and
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that's got a whole long list the app
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actually has a lot of functionality you
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can use it for presentations if you can
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figure out how to pair it with the
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computer Siri uber which might or might
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not work Siri actually doesn't look like
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it works on iOS 10 Wemo li FX
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IFTTT they really sort of pushed the
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edges of what can you do with this
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device and obviously having this hooked
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up with my apple homekit for example as
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i walk up to the house a triple click
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and the door unlocks that would be cool
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I can't get that to work I can't get
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this stuff to work reliably so I really
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want to love this product it's really a
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great little design it's obviously easy
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to put on your keychain or on your
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backpack or something and it is actually
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waterproof ip57 so that's nice so if you
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did have it on your backpack and you was
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snowing or raining it's still gonna work
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let's see so has an app you can download
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for free and it comes in blue gold grey
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or green eye blue pretty sure this is
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the grey color looks very grey and
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there's not much to it I mean you know
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here's a close-up there's it's it's it's
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a button but here's the thing is it like
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I said it's man I so want all this
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functionality to work and what the
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companies told me is if I was using an
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Android phone it would be more reliable
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this is a lot of this is just to do with
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how Apple and iOS does or doesn't let
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developers do things but it's kind of be
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a little
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so it's 3295 at amazon.com you can learn
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more about it at QB links dot-com and
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like I said if you get it and your
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primary goal is to have just a really
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nice elegant remote trigger maybe for
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those perfect selfies then this will
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work really well but you know it's a lot
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more if they could only get into the iOS
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system and speaking of getting into the
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iOS system hey have you clicked on that
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button so that you could actually
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subscribe
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I hear that heavenly choir thank you so
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much for subscribing and this like I
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said this is the Q mote and I really
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like it I really just wish it work
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better so Steve Taylor and I'll catch
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you in my next video
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