If your are reading this then you must be one of those people who find themselves where there physical dstv remote control unit, for some reason stops working.
It does not make any sense to have it repaired, and yet you need a quick solution to seamlessly allow you to continue controlling your dstv decoder or gotv decoder without spending much except for about 30MBs of your data.
Not to worry. If you have a phone device running on the android software I want you to download the this DStv Remote App a Remote Control For DSTV from the google play store and install it on your device.
After installation you can select a remote that is similar to your physical dstv remote or gotv remote. Click on it so that it can be downloaded and then test it with your decoder by pressing a few buttons here and there by using your touch screen
One basic requirement that your will need to have is an Infrared Sensor in order to be able to transmit the mote commands to your decoder
If app remote works then your phone has infrared sensors but if the app remote does not work, then you have either chosen a wrong app remote for your dstv decoder or gotv decoder or it may be because your phone does not have infrared sensors to enable sending of remote commands to your decoder