No smart phone, or dumb phone lol. Just a landline phone here. I got keyboard control to work in vlcradio with some trickery. You helped me immensely with that. I used a FLIRC which emulates a USB keyboard. https://flirc.tv/ Then controlled that with a cheap IR remote. It proved to be unreliable though. It just randomly stops working. I may revisit it and try to sort it out or improve it.
Use a media keyboard with your pHat Beat, can it be done?
One issue with that method is the keys I want to use, the media keys, don’t give any codes. So I end up using the arrow keys etc instead. Anyway, its off topic so I won’t dwell on it any further.
Keep up the good work =)