BT remote on EE

[londonman]

is there ay way t link the old BT remote to the EE box ?

[Midnight_Voice]

@londonman 

You never could link the older, InfraRed, YouView remotes to the boxes; all remotes worked all the boxes in line of sight (which could be tiresome if you had two YouView boxes in the same room!)

What you could do was ‘link’ the YouView remote to a particular make of TV, or sometimes make and model(s), by setting a code, so it would work that TV.

With the Box Pro and Minis, you can now pair the new remotes via Bluetooth, after which the remote will only operate that box it is paired with, line of sight not necessary once paired.

However, the converse is not true; a box paired with a Bluetooth remote won’t respond to any other Bluetooth remote, but it will still respond to any older IR remote.

So if you try an older IR remote on a newer box, and it is in line of sight, then as they still have IR as well as Bluetooth, it should ‘just work’.

For example, I have a T4000 (older 4K YouView box) in the lounge with its IR remote, as well as a Box Mini paired with its Bluetooth remote. The T4000 doesn’t see what’s going on with the Box Mini, but the T4000 remote is still detected, and responded to, by the Box Mini, as it is in line of sight, and still responds to IR, even though it is paired for Bluetooth.

I could fix this by taking the Box Mini out of line or sight, but I preferred to just cover the Box Mini’s IR sensor with a piece of black tape. It still responds to the Bluetooth, but now only to the Bluetooth.

If I needed to re-pair it, I would have to take the tape off, as this is a process that starts in IR, but then I’d just put the tape back on after.

The Bluetooth remotes take a different approach to linking to the TV; when you first connect up, the Box interrogates the TV over HDMI/CEC to ask what make and model it is, and then teaches the remote what it has found. Brilliant if the TV is correctly recognised, but very frustrating if not, as you can’t do much about that.

Though what you might be able to do is get hold of one of the older IR remotes, and experiment with the TV codes until you (hopefully) find a match.

[ney]

The new Bluetooth remotes are far better than the old inferred remotes. Most old inferred remotes can't be paired with anything.

The Firesticks in the last few years now use Bluetooth remotes and my just over 3 month old Samsung TV has a Bluetooth remote as well as an inferred one.

[Midnight_Voice]

@ney 

From which I infer that you prefer the new remotes 😛