jControl 4+

Like the radio its an overcomplicated mess, terminology that makes no sense to a user and setup/operating instructions that were a joke but somehow got incorporated, the engineers are still laughing that corporate released it. App is rarely updated and when it is consumer complaints aren’t addressed. The app and the radio are both dinosaurs from the 1990’s but survive because there isn’t any real competitors in the RV segment unlike the automotive segment. Bluetooth itself is just a one way connection, your phone to the radio, radio won’t transmit to your headphones, you’ll need a bluetooth adapter for that task. The radio model doesn’t really matter, the improvements are cosmetic at best, they change the size and move the buttons around but the basic technology never changes.

UPDATE: with NO HELP from anyone at Jensen I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!
1. Hold settings button on your radio until Bluetooth shows on the screen.
2. Turn Bluetooth off. And press any button to move away from that screen.
3. Then hold settings button on your radio again until Bluetooth shows again and turn it back on.
4. Then press and hold the Bluetooth pair button on the unit to make it discoverable for 120 seconds.
5. Go to your phones Bluetooth and you should see your radio within a few seconds.

That’s the only thing that works every time for us now. We have the JWM70A (but not for long! We’re ripping this junk out!)

Never stays connected. Always alway always takes 30-40 mins turning radio off and on, forgetting and deleting my device with Bluetooth and trying to reconnect. I am about to rip this garbage out of my ridiculously expensive toyhauler and buy a real stereo! How did they manage to even con their way in to getting this stereo in our rig! Not to mention where it’s place I can’t even SEE the display so I HAVE to use this app to use the radio! I’m 5’6 and the screen can only be seen if you are at exact eye level with the radio an inch up or down and it’s blank. It’s like the old “big screen projector TV’s”. Jensen is taking you back to the 90’s with this junk!

I like the app well enough, as far as controlling the radio from my phone goes, but even when the radio is Off, and I don’t have the jControl app running, it pesters me every thirty minutes or so with the message “jControl App would like to connect to your Jensen radio” or words to that effect. Even when I click on “Ignore”, it just keeps sending me this message. It is annoying to the point of being infuriating, and the next thing in my day is to uninstall the jControl app. My advice: skip it!!