TV Remote Jammer Circuit

We have already seen in the earlier posts about how to jam the mobile signals using simple mobile jammer circuit. Now, In this post, we are going to know about another interesting concept i.e. TV Remote jammer circuit. It is designed using NE555 Timer IC.

This proposed TV jammer circuit confuses the infrared receiver in a TV by producing the constant signal that interferes the remote control signal. If you switch on the circuit once, the TV will not receive any command from the remote. This allows you to watch your own program without anyone changing the channel or volume.

The fundamental technology used in TV Remotes is Infrared light. This infrared light is invisible to the human eye, but we can see these IR rays through camera.

TV Remote Control Jammer Circuit Principle:

The idea behind TV remote control jammer is sending a constant IR pulse with the carrier frequency of the transmitter. Hence the result will be non-accepted signal from the receiver and therefore no action will be taken.

Basically the TV remote emits a sequence of pulses when you press a button. IR transmitter is fixed to the surface of the TV remote. This IR transmitter emits the pulses in unique configuration for each button.

IR receiver which is arranged to TV will receive these sequence of pulses that are transmitted by TV Remote and identifies which button is pressed in TV remote.

Generally Philips TV remotes follows RC5 (Remote Control) protocol. This protocol was developed by Philips in the late 1980s. According to this protocol, for each button, Remote transmits 14 bits. The below figure shows the frame format of RC5 protocol.

The first two pulses are start bits, and both are logic 1.

The 3rd bit is toggle bit. This bit toggled every time when a button is pressed or released. Using this bit, we can identify weather the button is pressed or not.

The next 5 bits represent the device address. Bit 4 is the MSB of the device address and bit 8 is the LSB of the device.

Last six bits in the frame format are command bits. These command bits varies for each button in the remote. Using these command bits, we can identify which button is pressed in IR remote.

Features of RC5 protocol:

1. Bi-phase coding (Manchester coding)
2. 36Khz or 38Khz carrier frequency
3. Constant bit time of 1.778ms
4. 5 bit address and 6 bit command length

Modulation: The RC5 protocol uses bi – phase modulation. All 14 bits are equal length of 1.778ms.
source:electronicshub.org