Roku remotes with channel numbers?
Wow, my parents and I are having this problem with the lack of numerical buttons with a TCL HDTV (28S305)'s Roku RC. They watch it from OTA (antenna) and Internet apps (Spectrum, YouTube, CBS News, V...
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laoscarbenavide if you had looked at the remote before you bought your TV, you would have noticed it didn't have numerical buttons. I did that sort of research after a Samsung TV I bought about 8 years ago also came with a simple remote with no numeric buttons. So, it's not just Roku TVs. Also, Roku doesn't make the TVs, so your complaint is really with Onn, or whomever made the TV in question.
Finally, capitalizing each word in a sentence makes it more difficult to read. Please just use normal sentence structure.
Such a helpful response
atc98092 wrote:laoscarbenavide if you had looked at the remote before you bought your TV, you would have noticed it didn't have numerical buttons. I did that sort of research after a Samsung TV I bought about 8 years ago also came with a simple remote with no numeric buttons. So, it's not just Roku TVs. Also, Roku doesn't make the TVs, so your complaint is really with Onn, or whomever made the TV in question.
Finally, capitalizing each word in a sentence makes it more difficult to read. Please just use normal sentence structure.
Brandito wrote:Such a helpful response
There's times that no other response is possible. He's already purchased the TV, and there's no remote available anywhere that offers number buttons that would work on a Roku TV. Remotes with numeric buttons has been an asked for change for years, but Roku (and the TV makers) have stuck with the basic remote.
One potential workaround, and I honestly don't know if it would work as I've never tried it, is possibly using the Roku app on a phone or tablet, which offers a keypad that includes numbers. It works for entering user names and passwords, but I have no idea if you can directly enter a TV channel number.
EDIT: I just tried using the app on my Sharp Roku TV, and it does allow direct entry of an OTA channel. The one catch I discovered is that when entering the digital channel number, you must use a period instead of a dash between the primary channel number and the subchannel number. So for channel 7-3 you would enter 7.3 using the keyboard on the Roku remote.
@Brandito Great to know. I also use an inexpensive GE universal remote on a TCL Roku TV and the Roku channel live TV. I can access channels by inputting the channel number. Yay! It does not work for the DirecTV stream app. So probably application dependent.
RonOh wrote:@Brandito Great to know. I also use an inexpensive GE universal remote on a TCL Roku TV and the Roku channel live TV. I can access channels by inputting the channel number. Yay! It does not work for the DirecTV stream app. So probably application dependent.
Which RC model is this and from where? I hope it will work with 28" TCL Class 3-Series Simply Smart LED (28S305) and Spectrum's app.
