Cable Box connected. I can't change channels.
I work in an assisted living facility. A resident has a Onn Roku tv, and we've connected a DTA box to the TV and we have service. But apparently universal remotes don't work with Roku devices, and th...
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Qleth92 When you say DTA box is this a cable box? If this is a cable box who is the cable provider? I have a TCL Roku TV with a Spectrum cable box attached. Go into settings on the Onn Roku TV and set the TV to start on the HDMI input the cable box is attached to. With Spectrum cable remote you can turn on the TV and control volume. Then just use the cable box remote to change channels. Once this is set up the resident does not need the Onn Roku TV remote.
And we cannot change the channels with the spectrum remotes. None of the universal codes work on this brand of TV.
Even if your remotes aren’t as “universal” as they claim to be, aren’t the channels still changed on the cable box anyway? My parents have been on three cable systems in the last 15 years and that’s how it’s always been for them. The last time around, I went through 4 remotes (from the retirement home) before I found one with new enough firmware to control the volume on their newish Samsung TV, but all of the remotes could change channels because that was happening on the cable box and all the cable box remotes are preprogrammed for that.
(Cable remotes with older firmware would just ignore newer codes - ie: you'd do the thing to get them into programming mode, but if you used some of cable companies higher code numbers, remotes with older firmware would just ignore them.)
Not with this setup. The DTA or cable box just transmits the channel information to the TV. It's a basic setup for businesses with large quantities of users.
Do you have a link to the box? How is the box connected to the TV? I’ve searched for Spectrum DTA but so far have only found typical cable boxes. Even when I find something that specifically says it is a “mini DTA box” it is still connected either via HDMI or a coaxial cable with the TV set to channel 3 or 4.
