"John Small" wrote:"mikebdoss" wrote:
I hate to break it to you, but the sun gives off more EM radiation than any electronics you have in your home.
Indeed it does. Thankfully, it also happens to be 93 million miles away! 🙂 Proximity is everything, ...there are government regulations about limiting the amount of time people put cellphones against their head
I hear that other brands streamer stick remotes use bluetooth instead on newer remotes which is not on wifi. Not sure if that is better for your health. The remote for most popular other brand that has the volume and mute on the remote is blue tooth one.
@MEMOM wrote:I hear that other brands streamer stick remotes use bluetooth instead on newer remotes which is not on wifi. Not sure if that is better for your health. The remote for most popular other brand that has the volume and mute on the remote is blue tooth one.
Bluetooth is still 2.4 GHz, the same as the standard WiFi band. It might perhaps have a little lower power, since BT is supposed to be for nearby device communication. The Nvidia Shield uses Bluetooth. I believe the Fire TV does as well. But since it's in the same band as "normal" WiFi, there's likely any detectable difference to humans. That doesn't include people that are hyper-sensitive to radio waves, since if WiFi affects them then BT most likely would as well.
Oh ok. I do know the good thing about a remote using bluetooth instead of wifi though is it does not use your wifi signal! My older firestick I found out was using the same channel as my internet router. Every time I changed my internet router's channel... the remote followed! I have VERY slow speed internet which is just hardly fast enough to stream. I do not need any interference.
I tried a newer firestick that was bluetooth for this reason. I found out though ridiculously they do not sync my watched shows together from one tv to the other on the SAME account! All their tech people say this is normal.
My 2.4 ghz is not working anymore. So my beloved Roku 1 is not working due to my router and the 2.4 problem =(
Get an RF meter and, I hate to break it to you, but you'll see that it's you who is absurd.
Wi-Fi Direct can't be turned off BUT, you can set it to a clear channel. Scan your
Wi-Fi- channels with a laptop that can detect both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands. I use
www.nirsoft.net, WifiInfoView. It's free and gives me the channel, signal strength, signal
quality, etc. I use channel 161 as my primary channel for 5GHZ and I want to use
channel 48 for my Roku direct. As we all know, Roku will follow your primary channel
to also configure your Wi-Fi direct. (In my case channel 161)
So, find a clear channel in your area. (In my case channel 48) Now the "side-step" process. Configure your home wireless router to that clear channel.
(In my case 48) Reboot your wireless router. Reboot your Roku device. It will follow to
wireless router channel (In my case 48). Now go back and change your wireless router
to the original channel (In my case 161) Reboot your wireless router. All of your devices
will return to channel 161, in my case. However, Roku will stay on the previous channel
(48) when it was reset, and stay there until you reboot or reset the Roku device.
Check your channels periodically with WifiInfoView to make sure that the Roku hasn't auto-updated or reset. If it has, you'll see that Roku has gone back to your router's
primary channel...
A IR remote only emits when a button is pressed. A RF emits constantly. Even if the Roku base is unplugged the remote will constantly search for it and therefore wear down the batteries. The only way to stop that is to take the batteries out of the remote and unplug the Roku.
Luckily an IR remote does work with the Roku Ultras. I set mine up from day one using an IR remote, also disabled screen mirroring and a few other things.