Strange happenings with tv remote control. Any suggestions ??

[Deleted member 26715]

We currently have an issue with the wife's car, it's keyless & every now & again whilst outside our house it fails to open or once open fails to start. It never happens anywhere else only outside the house, convinced something is jamming the frequency

 

[vickster]

Unplug the fire if you’re not using it

 

[Yellow Saddle]

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You can get all sorts of effects of electomagnetic radiation. On older teles and older set top boxes switching the tele on frequently 'jammed' the box as it was giving out IR similar to that remotes on some boxes used at the time.

TV remotes with with infrared light, not electromagnetic signals. The one cannot jam the other. An IR signal will beam straight through the most powerful electromagnetic field without a problem, and vice versa.

 

[marinyork]

TV remotes with with infrared light, not electromagnetic signals. The one cannot jam the other. An IR signal will beam straight through the most powerful electromagnetic field without a problem, and vice versa.

Completely and utterly wrong. IR is electromagnetic.

 

[raleighnut]

Unplug the fire if you’re not using it

Beat me to it.

 

[Dave7]

Unplug the fire if you’re not using it

Now why didnt I think of that.
Oh yeah......because we were using it

 

[Markymark]

Go to one of your other houses.

 

[vickster]

Now why didnt I think of that.
Oh yeah......because we were using it

Except you said you've never used it?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Go to one of your other houses.

Maybe the staff in the gatehouse have a TV that doesn't interfere with your fire?

 

[Dave7]

Except you said you've never used it?

Ahh.....no I said the fire has a remote control that we have never used.

 

[Dave7]

Go to one of your other houses.

Easy to say that but which one ??

 

[Smokin Joe]

I've got both a Freesat and a Youview box connected to the TV and either remote will work the two of them.

 

[Dave7]

Maybe the staff in the gatehouse have a TV that doesn't interfere with your fire?

The problems we have had with staff, you just would not believe.

 

[cisamcgu]

Easy to say that but which one ??

The one without a fire - obviously !

 

[fossyant]

PS sunlight can mess up IR - get this with the 'outlaw'.

Phones saying telly won't work, it's because of direct sunlight on the IR receiver on the TV... works every other time other than low sun.