The invention relates to a remote control receiver device (100) that is arranged to be in a network with one or more consumer electronic devices (CED1; CED2; CEDN). The remote control receiver device (100) can receive remote control signals (1) from a remote control (20) and can transmit derived control signals (2, 3, 4) for one or more consumer electronic devices (CED1; CED2; CEDN) in the network. Thus, it is not necessary that the individual consumer electronic devices comprises a remote control receiver. The remote control receiver device (100) preferably performs filtering and translation of the received remote control signals, so that the derived control signals transmitted to a consumer electronic device only contains the signals relevant for that consumer electronic device and so that the remote control signals have been interpreted to become useful to the consumer electronic device.