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.
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.
Someone noticed the same thing last Friday. I was able to do it too with a universal remote, but it never changed channels. My TV is TCL.
If they're implementing this, I hope it won't be tedious. I.e., it would be nice if you could just key the channel number, without the subchannel "-1". Sometimes I just want to get close, not be a perfectionist about it.
Similarly, I hope they would allow us to go to any channel (even if hidden or no signal). Again, sometimes I just want to get closer to the 3 to 10 range, or 45-55. I might just type in 48 without any concern for what is actually there. I just want to easily get into the range, then "up" (or "down") arrow to go to 45 or 51. I don't want choose before going there. Just closer.
If they did it that way, then they could let us access the "hide" list (which would be nice if it had a "fav" column too) from the channel we're watching, deposit us into that list with the current channel selected so we can easily hide or unhide it.
If they did it this way, they could also let us add channels that weren't picked up during the scan (instead of having to do a destructive rescan). If you see a new channel in an online guide (a good reason to use an online guide instead of Roku's, which won't display all channels), you could type in that number (on the remote), and then enter the RF number to add that channel to the existing list of channels.
