{"id":1580,"date":"2026-07-09T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:42:00","slug":"freeze-av-mute-and-other-cool-things-to-do-with-your-epson-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/freeze-av-mute-and-other-cool-things-to-do-with-your-epson-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeze, AV Mute and other Cool Things to do with Your Epson Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200b\u200bMost teachers now have some kind of projector (Brightlink\/Smartboard)\u00a0 in their classroom and they all seem to come with the same remote.\u00a0 I just discovered some cool things that you can do with it and of course, I wanted to share!<\/p>\n

Freeze\u00a0<\/strong>– Press the Freeze button to freeze the image on the screen. Then you can use your computer to do your own work while leaving the screen frozen on what your class needs to see.<\/p>\n

AV\u200b\u00a0Mute\u00a0<\/strong>– Temporarily turn off the display video and audio. I’ve noticed that lots of teachers use this feature to save the light bulb without having to turn the machine off and then on again in a few minutes when you need it again.<\/p>\n

Display Pointer\u00a0<\/strong>– Pressing this puts an arrow on the screen that you can control using the arrow buttons on the remote.<\/p>\n

Page Up and Down buttons\u00a0<\/strong>– These can be used to move through slides in your PowerPoint or other slide\u00a0presentation.\u00a0 This only works if you are not using a pen:\u00a0\u200bClick here for more information.\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a picture that explains what all the buttons do:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From:\u00a0https:\/\/nerdtechy.com\/epson-powerlite-l500w-review\u200b\u00a0\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200b\u200bMost teachers now have some kind of projector (Brightlink\/Smartboard)\u00a0 in their classroom and they all seem to come with the same remote.\u00a0 I just discovered some cool things that you can do with it and of course, I wanted to share! Freeze\u00a0– Press the Freeze button to freeze the image on the screen. Then you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}