jControl

ASA Electronics, LLC

About this app

jControl is the ultimate wireless remote control for your JENSEN entertainment system. Put away your old remotes and enjoy the expanded convenience of all the primary functions of your JENSEN entertainment system right from your phone or tablet by transforming your mobile device into a functional remote control making it a perfect, hand-size, protable controller to fit your active lifestyle!

The jControl app works with the following JENSEN models:

JWM1A
JWM10A
JWM12A
JWM6A
JWM60A
JWM62A
JWM70A
JWM72A
JWM9A
JWM90A
JWM92A
MS2A
MS3A

This app controls all of the primary functions of your JENSEN including:

Power on/off
Volume and mute
CD/DVD player
AM/FM radio tuner: access station, recall, store presets, switch songs
NOAA weather band and alert
Bluetooth® streaming audio
Sirius XM Satellite Radio
File structure visibility, track selection, track audible scan up and down via USB
iPod/iPhone/iPad control capabilities via USB
Auxiliary audio input control –auxiliary analog 1 & 2, auxiliary digital coaxial, auxiliary digital optical
Speaker selection A, B and/or C
Audio menu controls- base, treble, balance, fader, equalizer, volume and speaker selection settings
Clock with sleep time and alarm
Visual display feedback so you can see artist title and album on your mobile screen

*App capabilities vary with the stereo’s feature set.

Ratings and reviews

I'll join the chorus. It initially worked okay although the Bluetooth setup is rather cryptic. At some point round 2020 the Bluetooth control became erratic. Sometimes the first couple of commands would work, then device control would freeze. I was recently streaming media via Bluetooth and the control froze, but the media kept playing. I'm guessing there was an Android update and the app needs updating to fix this. I'm unhappy because I used to be able to sit outside my RV and adjust it.

Once paired it works with my JWM70A; but I have to delete the old connection and re-pair it every time I want to connect. Not very useful as a remote when you have to get up and push buttons on the base station whenever you want to use it. Only one device can be connected at a time; so my wife and I can't both control settings. The interface is less than intuitive. (On further inspection, all the buttons are relavant.) There's very little documentation and it appears to be out of date. I'm going back to the perfectly serviceable remote. Pixel 3XL and Pixel 2. 9/3/2018 - Still practically useless. Still have to re-pair my device every time I want to connect. I think I'll replace the Jensen with a chromebox -- so I can use Android apps and download media for offline use.

Used to work, not anymore. While the app will connect to my JWM6A radio, it doesn't allow you to control anything like it used to. My phone is a Galaxy S20FE. The Bluetooth doesn't seem to be the problem as I can play audio through the Bluetooth connection, and that's with the app uninstalled. So the app is unfortunately useless even though the app info says it's completely compatible with my phone. I'd be willing to work with the developers to help fix the issues rather than give up.

What's new

Added support for Android 13.