Remotes with numeric pad?

Well, it's not an 'accepted solution'. It's giving in to the realization that Roku isn't coming up with a workable solution for this failure in the technology. It's a terrible workaround.

 I bought a Roku TV set. I spent days searching for a STANDARD remote control, which must include numbers 0 through 9, that would function on a Roku TV set. I determined it's impossible to obtain one. The designers of Roku were not intelligent enough to allow numbers 0 through 9 to work on their products. I gave the TV set away for free because I considered it to be worthless. With 21 TV sets in my home ranging in quality from 8 to 9.9, there was simply no way I would allow a quality of 1.2 to be amongst the rest. I will not have such inferior products in my household and I will not subject myself to the torment of having a remote control with less than 40 buttons on it. Maybe if we force the Roku engineers to use car stereos with only 7 buttons on them, instead of over 40 buttons (including preset stations), they will come to understand the importance and the ease of use that goes along with having over 40 buttons on a remote control.

I discovered a way to navigate around to my favorite channels in seconds - not minutes, instead of scrolling thru channels one by one on the antennae input (on-the-air) since there is no numerical pad that actually changes channels.  I don't know if anyone else has discovered this or not but it has definitely helped me.

In live tv I click on the left arrow to open the guide, including all my local stations.  Then I use the fast forward/fast backward buttons to fly thru the guide.  I can go from channel 2 to channel 450 in 3-4 seconds and then I can use the up and down arrows to 'fine tune' my channel selection.

Hope this helps someone else.  🙂

To add: Roku devices were originally designed for just streaming. No numbers since it was mainly for just scrolling through lists or boxes. When Roku licensed their code for use by TV manufacturers, it seems as if the remote code set is part of it. The thinking was that most people don't use a TV as a tuner anymore and mostly use a 3rd party tuner like a cable or satellite box. It's only been recently that cord-cutting has pushed people back to antenna's. And the rise of both cable system apps and services like Sling have made having numbers a bit more useful again.

That said, most think the idea of channel numbers will slowly disappear as 'linear' programming is replaced with OnDemand-style programming.

When you're on a channel you don't want, hit the * key and choose "hide channel"