A:Answer If your Dish Remote is an INFRARED Remote, you should be able to use it to teach the SideClick Remote Buttons to do things like Volume Up/Down, Channel Up/Down, Mute, etc. All buttons on the SideClick are programmable by putting the SideClick in Learn Mode and selecting the button you want to program, then point the remotes at each other and press the button on your Dish Remote that you want to program over on the SideClick Remote. Any SideClick Button can be programmed to do anything you want it to do.