I remember doing codes in cub scouts aback in the 70s. these types are the easiest to break. The hardest were our military codes. every letter, every group of common letters such as CH and TH and OUGH had a three letter designation some times the same letters would have several groups of three to represent them. so a message would just be a long list of three groups of letters. without the decoding book, there was no way to decipher the message from patterns.
If it’s a simple translation code, then assuming english as the base language, the most common symbol would be an E. any a symbol on it’s own will be either an I or an A. Three characters ending in the E symbol is most likely THEFrom there you can start to fill in blanks and make sense of the code.
Yeah the first ones were wireless, then ther was the first wireless which was just a clicker, that advanced the channel one position, then they started getting fancy with IR remotes that could go Up or down, as well as volume control. Now the remotes are so advanced they can do everything but we’re so old we can’t figure which button to press to do what we want.
SUCH a supportive … Dang it! combination of fat fingers and still working on my first coffee-