It works as advertised.
It works well, I just wish it could navigate through the iPod's menu. To change albums you have to physically do it on the iPod itself. Otherwise it just does volume and playback controls. It works, not much else.

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Lame remote for iHome
The buttons don't have that clicky button feel, so you press and you're like "did it go?"... The labels are hard to read, icons take a little figuring out. Honestly I use it for turning on/off, and if I want to do anything else I go up to the iHome to adjust it.

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Decent remote, but not perfect
This remote does what is claims to do, so there are no surprises, but it definitely could be improved. First, it's really picky directionally, so you have to actually point it directly at the clock radio, not easy when you're lying in bed. Secondly, the lack of a sleep function for dozing off at night is for me a glaring omission; who wants to get up out of bed once they start to get sleepy or finish reading just to turn on the sleep feature?

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Bought with an iHome from amazon, stopped working after about a month
I bought an ihome along with a remote on amazon a month or two ago. I f I hadn't wanted the remote, I could have payed about 15 or 20 dollars less and gotten one without it. But after about a month of use, my remote decided to stop working.At first I thought the battery was dead. So I tried a new battery. Didn't work. I even used a voltage meter on both batteries and learned that both were completely full and functional. I didn't drop the remote in any way that should have broken on it. I didn't step on it, spill anything on it, or throw it across the room. So I was rather upset when it stopped working. And there no way I can really return it. So now I want a remote but I'm unsure if I should order another.

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Problem with iPod pause button
I love the iH5 clock-radio. It's great to wake up to iPod music in the morning. However the remote (which I wound up getting separately for about $15 after shipping) has an annoying problem.

The iPod play/pause button (on the top right) is extremely sketchy in how it works. It only sometimes turns off the iPod music past about 15 feet away (I know it's only "rated" at 10 feet) and then I have to "roll" my finger across the button. Maybe I have a defective model. The volume and track change buttons work perfectly from any distance, any angle as long as you are pointing it at the unit, so I'd expect the play/pause button to perform just as well, but it doesn't.

I can still use the volume buttons to "turn off" the iPod music, but then the iPod is still playing songs.

Overall worthwhile, but I'm thinking of returning mine and hoping this one is just defective.