REMOTE Sony LSPX-P1.

[Reklaw63]

• I need a new remote for my projector and I'm finding it imposible to get one and the unerversal remotes do not appear to be compatible.  Can anyone help ? 

[LightFoot]

Hi @Reklaw63 

Not that I know what I am talking about, but this device does not appear to come with a remote control. Is it not fully controlled with the specialist App? 

[daveyh64]

The package contents page of the manual does show that it comes with an IR blaster (cabled remote)

see here,

https://helpguide.sony.net/projector/lspxp1/v1/en/contents/TP0001110786.html

Does  this IR blaster have a model number printed on it anywhere?

If so what is it, or search on line for this remote using its model number, if you haven't already.

[royabrown2]

@daveyh64 @Reklaw63 @LightFoot 

Yes, but that list doesn’t contain a remote for the projector, and the projector seems to be controlled from the app, typically installed on a smartphone, either by Bluetooth or over WiFi.

And an IR blaster is just a relay for an IR remote, it’s not a remote in itself.

It looks as if, oddly(?) the remote sensor on the projector just relays the signal from the remote of some other device, typically the source plugged into the HDMI In of the wireless unit, via the IR Blaster, to that source device.

The logic being, presumably, that the source can be out of line of sight from the user, but the user can still control the source, with the source’s remote, as long as the projector is in their line of sight.

So the question for @Reklaw63, who thinks they need a new remote, is what remote is that? Possibly the one for the source device, and not one for the projector?

Which then devolves into the usual question of can you see flickering when you look at the business end of the remote through a smartphone camera?

And if not (or even if there is some flickering) does the remote need new batteries?

To which, in this case, must be added, does the remote work the source device when you get into line of sight of it, avoiding, for the moment, the use of the IR blaster?

And if it does, to check the operation of the IR blaster. Does it pass the camera test? Is it still in line of sight of the source device, or has it been moved, or the path obstructed, or is no longer securely connected to the wireless unit?

We need @Reklaw63 to come back and clarify all this.