Only the original Roku stick 3400 mhl version could be controlled via tv remote, no roku since can sorry. If the roku wasn't a stick, and received roku IR commands, and tv had a code for roku, then it would control the roku by IR only.
Sorry I’m a bit late to the party, but I’ve just been wresting with this issue myself, and this was one of the threads I searched. So it may be too late to help the OP, but should help those that come after.
It’s quite right that Roku don’t respond to CEC (Simplink), but LG Magic Remotes are supposed to be able to control Roku devices via Settings/All Settings/Connection/Device Connection Settings/Universal Control Settings, where you can specify a device plugged into one of the HDMI ports, and if the Magic Remote has its keypresses in its repertoire, IR or RF, it will operate it.
In fact, sometimes it will even sniff a new device and set itself up for it.
So our new LG 43” Nano just picked up the Roku Premiere I plugged into it, and worked it, straight off the bat.
But I wanted to use that downstairs, so I swapped in a Roku Streaming Stick+ instead.
No go; the LG didn’t auto-configure for it 😢
Now, after a lot of work, I have isolated the problem; the LG misrecognises the SS+, says it is configured, but isn’t. Even when I go so far into manual configuration as to be specifying OTT and then the model number, and get offered 3710X, 3810 (no X) and 3910X to choose from, it doesn’t work the SS+, a 3810X.
So in principle, LG TV Magic Remotes should work Roku devices; of the three current small devices, one works, one doesn’t, and I don’t know about the other one (the Express).
I’ll be on to LG in the morning and see what they have to say....
[Edited to get the model numbers correct]
It would work if the roku you had accepted IR commands which NO roku stick does, they can only be controlled with wifi remote. A roku stick has a hdmi connector built-in, it doesn't have hdmi port for a hdmi cable. Roku Express & Premiere look like a stick but aren't, they accept IR commands and have hdmi port for a hdmi cable.
Thanks, Tivoburkee; that would explain why things worked for the Premiere, but not for the SS+, and would predict that they would work for the Express.
A couple of flies in that ointment, though 😢
Firstly, the LG Magic Remote is a dual RF and IR device; it talks to LG TVs via RF as standard. So it could perfectly well talk to the SS+ via RF, I would have thought
Secondly, the list of supported devices, as shown by the setting dialogue on the LG TV if you go to manual, includes the 3810; why would it be there if LG didn’t think they could control the SS+?
(I am, though, presuming that it says 3810 rather than 3810X, as there is a whole family of 3810 variants, and it will control them all; certainly the X is the most widespread and plain vanilla variant, I think, so I would expect it to be included).
Finally, though it is not an objection like the two points above, what has whether these devices have an HDMI port or not got to do with anything?
But I am still learning about LG TVs, though I have had Roku devices ever since the 3, so your guidance, as above and on my difficulties with it, would be very much appreciated.
[Edited to get the model numbers correct - thanks Tivoburkee ]
Midnight_Voice wrote:Thanks, Tivoburkee; that would explain why things worked for the Premiere, but not for the SS+, and would predict that they would work for the Express.
A couple of flies in that ointment, though 😢
Firstly, the LG Magic Remote is a dual RF and IR device; it talks to LG TVs via RF as standard. So it could perfectly well talk to the SS+ via RF, I would have thought
Secondly, the list of supported devices, as shown by the setting dialogue on the LG TV if you go to manual, includes the 3810; why would it be there if LG didn’t think they could control the SS+?
(I am, though, presuming that it says 3810 rather than 3810X, as there is a whole family of 3810 variants, and it will control them all; certainly the X is the most widespread and plain vanilla variant, I think, so I would expect it to be included).
Finally, though it is not an objection like the two points above, what has whether these devices have an HDMI port or not got to do with anything?
But I am still learning about LG TVs, though I have had Roku devices ever since the 3, so your guidance, as above and on my difficulties with it, would be very much appreciated.
[Edited to get the model numbers correct - thanks Tivoburkee ]
LG Magic Remotes use Bluetooth, Roku "point anywhere" remotes use WiFi Direct.
