R all Telly clickers the same?

[jobin]

I would have used 'TV clickers' but that would confuse half the readers here. I am not a Brit.

So i lost/misplaced my telly remote clicker and may need to buy a new one.

Are all these telly clickers the same or must i buy one to match the TV set, an LG?. I would seek to pay the very minimum.

[Crossy]

No they are not, you really need the exact same remote that you've lost.

Try visiting the service centre of your TV manufacturer with the exact model of the TV.

There are 'universal' remotes available, I've had mixed luck with them in the past but if your TV is simple then one of these could be the way forwards.

Surely it can't have gone far, it's not the sort of thing that gets 'borrowed', try down the back of the sofa (you may even find enough cash to buy a new remote).

[lopburi3]

There are locally made controls for specific types of sets that are much better than universal type - the Ban Mo electronic area around Old Siam Plaza will have many shops selling. Also Ebay is an option. Direct from maker is likely to be expensive.

[ignis]

Had to buy a few, my dogs take a fancy to them...

write down Make and Number, easy to find, found them on stalls in markets, little shops, found a place in one of the Villages a couple of months ago, repairs TV's set top boxes and sells lots of TV things, had loads of remotes.. cost 200 baht.

[Chicog]

If you can't find the exact one, google "Universal Remote".

[SoiBiker]

You don't necessarily need the exact same TV. Samsung remotes, for example, seem pretty universal from one of their models to another - the one from my recent model plasma also happily controlled the ageing CRT behemoth in the other room.

[KhunBENQ]

What I observed: here on a local evening market there is at least one booth with only remotes.

They must have hundreds (maybe secondhand).

Such a market with all kind of stuff (clothes, tools, electric parts etc.pp.).

Whether there is such a market in your area (where?) I can't tell of course.

[Jdietz]

All clickers are basically the same in that they all quickly blink a heat ray. How quick they blink and what they are trying to spell out is different for each one though.

That said, within a brand most of the clickers speak the same language, and should just work, though special complicated newfangled functions nobody ever uses (like setting the clock to something different than 0:00 blinking) may be out of reach.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Jdietz

[RichCor]

All clickers are basically the same in that they all quickly blink a heat ray. How quick they blink and what they are trying to spell out is different for each one though. <...>

By "heat ray", JDeitz is referring to is typically a near-infrared diode used to emit a beam of light (at 940 nm wavelength) to signal/control an electronic appliance within line-of-sight of the remote.

According to Wikipedia:

Different manufacturers of infrared remote controls use different protocols to transmit the infrared commands. The RC-5 protocol that has its origins within Philips, uses, for instance, a total of 14 bits for each button press. The bit pattern is modulated onto a carrier frequency that, again, can be different for different manufacturers and standards, in the case of RC-5, the carrier is 36 kHz. Other consumer infrared protocols include the various versions of SIRCS used by Sony, the RC-6 from Philips, the Ruwido R-Step, and the NEC TC101 protocol.

As already stated, some companies stick with the same signalling protocol so most any of that companies remotes will work with all their products, sometimes to the exasperation of consumers who run multiple devices within close proximity to each other.

Some companies will use different signalling protocols with different appliance classes. And sometimes a company will rebadge / rebrand an appliance under a different name for another company, so the signalling protocol may be different.

'Universal Remotes' are handy as they've been set to know the generic pattern used by different companies and can be set to 'emulate' all or most functions of a common appliance (TV, DVD, VCR). While some offer 'discovery' (allowing you to 'step' though all the company signalling pattern in memory one at a time until one 'works'), other universal remotes offer to 'clone' an existing set of remotes by letting you press each remote button and assigning each button press to a like-associated key on the universal remote -- thus allowing you to use just one remote in the place of many.

I've noticed a lot of the local shops around me carry common replacement remotes for SAT Set-Top-Box Receivers.

Edited November 13, 2015 by RichCor

[blackcab]

If you have a Samsung S5 you can get an app that will control many items, including Samsung TVs. This is very handy in the pub...

I am sure that there are other phones that can do this, but I can only speak for the S5 as that is what I use.