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drjlfra
Newbie
6 years ago
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How to sync Roku remote without pairing button

I just purchased a replacement remote.  As I went to pair the new remote to my Roku device, I noticed that there is no pairing button.  It is the basic standard remote (nothing fancy).  I researche...
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  • Tivoburkee's avatar
    Tivoburkee
    6 years ago

    You can't pair a remote without a pairing button, without one its just IR remote. If your roku is a stick, then its worthless, if its a console then should just work by IR with nothing to program.

    Of course I have no idea what roku remote you bought? What model of roku you have? If this new roku remote has power key then its a Roku TV remote and uses a completely different IR code then Roku console streamers like express, premiere, or ultra. 

     

    Additional resources from the Support site that you might find helpful:

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Michelle3
Roku Guru
3 years ago

Sambam84 Are you sure that the pair button is not on the battery compartment?  If not, you have the wrong brand remote.  Hisense does not own the Hitachi company in any shape or form.
~ Jordan

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Tivoburkee
Community Streaming Expert
3 years ago

Sambam84 

You had the bad luck of picking one of the two Roku tv brand remotes that only work on each other, Hisense and Sharp Roku tv remotes. There is second code set used by many other Roku tv brands including your Hitachi. These brands include tcl, insignia, onn, hitachi, haier, element, jvc, sanyo, magnavox, and westingouse. Each of those will work with each other, they would work with hisense & sharp too, sense those brands accept both Roku tv code sets. 

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    Michelle3
    Roku Guru
    3 years ago

    FYI, at one point, Hisense was licensed to manufacture and sell TV sets carrying the Sharp brand; this happened for only four years between 2015-2019.  In 2016, Foxconn (also known as Hon Hai Technology Group) bought out Sharp, making Sharp a financial turnaround.  Between 2017-2018, Sharp filed a law-suit against the Hisense company due to the quality of the Sharp-branded Hisense TV sets that made Sharp strongly feel that the licensing was used inappropriately. Then in mid/late 2019, Sharp bought back its television electronics subsidiary from Hisense, and since then, official Sharp-manufactured sets have returned on the market.

    On the other hand, the Dutch-based Philips company has owned Magnavox since 1974, and currently has a manufacturing and sales partnership with Funai Electric Co. Ltd., through their P&F USA Inc. joint venture.  Previously, beginning in the mid 1990s when Philips first started a partnership with Funai; the partnership was only for OEM manufacturing of certain electronics, such as VHS players/recorders and TV/VCR combos — Funai did the manufacturing, while Philips and mostly its Magnavox subsidiary did the branding.  Sanyo (aka the Sony Rip-Off) was bought out by Panasonic in early 2011, then three years later, Panasonic licensed Funai to manufacture and sell products under the Sanyo brand.  However, Panasonic does sell their batteries under the Eneloop product line, which was ran by Sanyo.

    ~ Jordan