How do I find my TV remote?

Invented in the United States in 1955, the wireless television remote control has long been commonplace in every home. Since then, it has undergone changes, having lost its bulkiness, angularity and acquired many functions, becoming the main tool for controlling television equipment. Now the remote control is a compact device with well-thought-out ergonomics. It is convenient to hold it in the hand, but its small size often becomes not a plus, but a disadvantage.

Agree, the disappearance of the telecontrol in your own apartment can be a rather serious problem. What if he gets lost? Your favorite movie or program will start from minute to minute, and quickly finding the desired channel by switching the buttons on the back of the TV is quite a task! Indeed, on modern models, striving for total minimalism and representing a solid thin screen with almost no frame, even making out these small switches is quite difficult. You have to unfold the TV, and if it is rigidly fixed to the wall, the operation will generally have to be performed by touch.

But if you can somehow quickly learn how to adjust the volume and flip through channels without a remote control, then connect Smart-TV or operate with other settings, which the latest technology possesses will not be so easy. Quick mute, change the screen size, exit to the TV menu, call the on-screen keyboard, set the timer - all these convenient functions are located on the small plane of the remote control.

True, today, in the age of obsession with gadgets that are constantly improving, a smartphone comes to the rescue... Thanks to special applications, you can synchronize with a specific TV model and control it via your mobile device.

While watching a show or a movie, the viewer's attention is completely focused on the screen. Absorbed by television action, we do not record where we put the remote control after switching to the desired channel. Compact size, traditionally dim (black, gray or silver) color and smooth plastic surface - all these factors "help" the remote control (RC) to disappear without a trace even in a very small space. Where and how to find the missing remote control?

If the remote control suddenly disappears after you are immersed in viewing for some time, then first of all you need to inspect the placewhere you settled down. Get up, look around you, check if the remote has fallen to the floor. You need to remember the order of your actions: whether you got up, left the room, maybe during the commercial break you went to the toilet with a remote control or for a quick snack in the kitchen. Or maybe during a TV session you were distracted by a phone call or opening the door for someone.

Invite helpers to search: your relatives (especially children) will gladly join the competition “who will find the remote control first”. Everyone knows that a mobile phone is often lost in an apartment. But, having called the number from another device, we go to the sound and find the loss.

Sometimes the lost remote control is found in rather unexpected corners of the house, but you need to start simple.

1. The most obvious place in the apartment is where the viewer sits. If it is a bed, sofa or armchair, then the remote control can easily fall into the gap between the back, seat and armrests, hide under sofa cushions, in the folds of bedspreads or blankets. It can even accidentally slip inside the duvet cover. Carefully check if it is there, without shaking the bed above the floor, so that the remote does not break if it falls.
2. Be sure to search the coffee table in front of the sofa, the thin remote control may lie under books or between the pages of glossy publications.
3. Check the TV stand - the remote control may have just fallen over it.
4. Examine the shelving and bookshelves.
5. Look at your desk or computer desk or in its drawers.
6. Look behind the curtains - the loss can be found on the windowsill.
7. In families with small children, you should look for the remote control in their toys, wardrobes, beds and ask the children, so they can hide it in the most unpredictable place.
8. The device can also be used as a game for pets. Provide your dog with special accessories from the pet store so that he does not have the temptation to chew on your remote control.
9. Even a refrigerator or kitchen cabinets can become an unobvious place for detecting a remote control - an absent-minded viewer who decides to have a snack while watching can unconsciously put it there.
10. A forgotten remote control can unexpectedly be found in the toilet room or in the bathroom.
11. In the corridor, it is worth looking at the mirror or on the shoe bench. And if the house has a dressing room, it means that another vast space for search opens up in front of you.

How not to lose your remote over and over - there are several solutions to this problem.

1. First of all, you have to try keep the remote control in one clearly designated place and make it a rule for all family members to put it only there. You can store the remote on the TV stand, sofa armrest, or coffee table.
2. Special holders available: they can be wall-mounted or as a table-top stand. The most basic wall mounts are held on double-sided tape. There are very convenient organizer stands that can accommodate several devices at once, because an air conditioner, a music center, and a home theater with a screen also have a remote control function. A real hit - the bright and original Cozy remote stand is produced by the British designer brand J-me.
3. Interesting solution - organizer for the armrest of a sofa or chair. It is easy to buy from, for example, the Homsu or Balvi brands. Well-known Aliexpress offers many options. This is a very practical product that combines a kind of table-tray for a cup or glass, and pockets in which it is convenient to put a remote control, glasses, and a fresh magazine. The model is simpler, without a table - just a stitched canvas with pockets thrown over the armrest. Many needlewomen make such an organizer on their own, it is not difficult to sew it from fabric that matches the color of the sofa upholstery. It will look gorgeous complete with a sofa and a wooden shelf organizer.
4. Another way out of the situation can be purchase of a universal remote control that combines the control of several household appliances... After entering the unique code of your TV device, it will be connected, and further operation of this remote control is no different from working with the usual one.
5. Try to deal with absent-mindedness with special keychainbut it will take some ingenuity to attach it to the remote. Actually it was made for keys. When you cannot find the key before leaving the house, you should whistle and the speaker will start beeping.True, there are many disgruntled users who note that the device reacts to any high-frequency sound and often emits a signal when it is not needed at all.
6. Advise attach the remote control with a cord to the TV, provide it with a sticker visible from afar or even a fluffy "tail" made of bright fur are not entirely serious, but they also have a right to exist.

It remains to be hoped that the rapid development of technologies will soon make the problem of losing the remote control irrelevant, perhaps new solutions will appear.

How to find the TV remote control, see below.