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  • Vizio 2.0 Sound Bar SB2020n-J6 - learning the TV's remote

    From Peabody@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 12 16:14:19 2022
    I just bought a Vizio sound bar, model SB2020n-J6, which is the cheap 2.0
    sound bar. It has a feature that allows the sound bar to "learn" the IR
    codes transmitted by your TV remote's Volume-, Volume+, and Mute buttons. That's so you can use your TV remote to control the sound bar. I have a
    Sharp TV, and haven't been able to get the learn function to work.

    According to the manual, if I hold down the OK and Mute buttons on the
    Vizio remote for about 5 seconds, the sound bar will go into learning mode
    and display a blinking white LED. Then you hit the Mute button on the TV remote, which the sound bar should learn. Basically like a universal
    learning remote.

    I get the blinking, but it's amber, not white, and it doesn't learn. The
    same for Volume- and Volume+. Volume- should have a blinking yellow LED,
    and Volume+ should have blinking amber. But on mine all three are blinking amber.

    I don't want to take this one back only to have the replacement do the same thing. So I wondered if anyone here also has this model, and could at
    least tell mw what the three blinking colors are, and of course whether the learning function works at all.

    Vizio support says it's probably incompatibility with Sharp remotes. They
    also say there is no new firmware for this model.

    If anyone can shed any light on this, I would appreciate it. It's a pain
    to have to use the Vizio remote for volume functions, and the other remote
    to change channels. If it matters, I'm using an optical cable. This
    sound bar model doesn't have HDMI in or out, so the interaction HDMI would permit isn't available.

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  • From Peter W.@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 13 04:43:36 2022
    This is no help at all, but we found out that some Vizio products are not compatible with some Comcast/Xfinity remotes, most especially the non-interactive (speak-to) remotes. Our solution was to 'trade' the Vizio product for an equally cheap Insignia
    product that was compatible. I hope there is another solution in your case.

    Peter Wieck
    Melrose Park, PA

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  • From Peabody@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 13 09:51:56 2022
    Peter W. says...

    This is no help at all, but we found out that some Vizio
    products are not compatible with some Comcast/Xfinity
    remotes, most especially the non-interactive (speak-to)
    remotes. Our solution was to 'trade' the Vizio product
    for an equally cheap Insignia product that was
    compatible. I hope there is another solution in your
    case.

    Thanks very much. I'll take a look at the Insignia sound
    bars at BestBuy.

    I can also get around the problem by switching back to the
    analog feed from the earphone jack on the TV. Then all the
    TV controls work again. I was just hoping to keep the
    digital audio, although I suspect it may not make much
    difference in sound quality.

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