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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The tip of using the asterisk button to bring up screen that shows “Find a channel” does not work for me (on a brand new TCL 32inch Roku TV). When I press the asterisk button on my remote, I get a long list of options that start with “Sleep timer” and include other options like “TV Brightness” “Picture size” “Sound mode” “SAP” etc. NO “Find a channel” option anywhere to be seen. Would be great if this were an option for me.
I’m another new ROKU customer that is quite disappointed at having no way to easily change channels when TV is connected to cable service via coax without a set top box. Will not buy another Roku product until this is addressed.
Addition to last post: I am a believer in capitalism (mostly), and so will spread the word to all I know NOT to buy a Roku TV if one wants to easily change channels. Will try to get the people I know to “vote with our dollars.” Will leave review on Amazon for my Roku TV with this message as well.
Are you listening, Roku?
EEinIA wrote:Addition to last post: I am a believer in capitalism (mostly), and so will spread the word to all I know NOT to buy a Roku TV if one wants to easily change channels. Will try to get the people I know to “vote with our dollars.” Will leave review on Amazon for my Roku TV with this message as well.
Are you listening, Roku?
Roku doesn't sell the TVs, they only provide the operating system. It's the TV manufacturers that need to offer a different remote. Roku has no control over that.
I have a universal remote that does have numbers and it will enter the channel number on my TCL TV, BUT when I press the enter button the numbers disappears and nothing happens. So that indicates to me an operating system, ah hem, feature. If the TCL sees the numerical input from my remote and displays it, then why doesn't it go to that channel when I press enter? The enter button works when selecting content, so the TV recognizes that button, just not for changing channels.
So I see this as a Roku OS problem, not a TCL manufacturing problem.
I feel the exact same way!!!!!!
I just got a new onn roku tv for Christmas. $700 tv and I can't go directly to a tv channel!!! I have over 50 channels I have to slowly scroll thru...and no, my rwd and ff buttons don't change channels, they activate live tv pause. And I have several universal remotes and they only have the same functions as the roku remote. I have been a roku user for years and I know they have made great strides and advancements, but this should be a pretty simple fix. AT LEAST offer it in the much promoted remote app.
Thanks
So I use a Logitech Harmony remote to control my hisense roku tv and accidentally pressed a number on the keypad and the roku recognized it and puts up blue numbers on the screen. I haven't figured out how to make it actually to to the channel input and I assume there should be an input for the decimal on OTA channels, but this feels like progress.
This may be a future feature that somehow slipped in. Something similar happened to me a couple months before they officially added streaming channels to the OTA channel guide.
Edit: little searching through my Harmony setup and I actually added my house se tv as a tcl, I think at the time the database didn't have a hisense roku tv.
