How to determine lamp remote protocol?

Hardware
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I have a cheap LED lamp that I want to control from Home Assistant, this one to be exact.

It has built in LEDs and is dimmable with adjustable colour temperature and scene presets, all of which can be controlled using the supplied remote control.

I bought an IR blaster thinking the remote was infrared, but it’s clearly not as it doesn’t get picked up and on realising this, I managed to operate it successfully in another room with no line of sight to the lamp.

Now I’m guessing the remote uses some kind of 2.4GHz communication? It has no markings on it that I can see and is powered by 2 AAA batteries. Is it likely I can find something to replicate the signals the remote sends that I can integrate into Home Assistant? If not I suppose the fallback choice would be a smart plug but obviously then I’d just have on/off without dimming support.

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I had a lamp with a similar-looking remote that I was able to control with a Broadlink RM4 Pro (which can handle RF as well as IR).

You can tell whether a remote is IR or not by looking at it through your mobile phone camera - if it’s IR you should be able to see it flash.

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I meant to say actually but I also tried looking at it through my phone camera as you mentioned and indeed, I don’t see anything, compared to other remotes that I know to be IR. So it’s safe to say it’s not but I wonder if it’s a bit of a gamble that it would work with the Broadlink RF blaster either?

The main issues with that are that it’s expensive and it’s Wi-Fi. I might look into if there’s any Tuya equivalent that can handle RF as well…