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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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.
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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.
I found an easy way to change channel to specific number. I have an iPhone it might work on android.
1. Get Roku app
2. Connect app to tv so remote is enabled
3. press the microphone icon and say “change channel to 45”
ps: if you say change to tnt it will open the tnt app so you need to say the number.
upvote this please to help others
Actually, you can just say: "channel #" to switch OTA channels in Live TV. This even works for subchannels e.g.: "channel 10 point 2". (using the Android app - assuming it works the same in the iOS app).
Unfortunately, this does not seem to work for the streaming channels now listed after the OTA channels in the latest update of the TV (TCL) app - it just switches to the nearest available OTA channel. Maybe there is a secret magic phrase, but I haven't figured it out yet.
The fact that the numbers show up where the regular white ones normally are has me really hopeful.
Now that they also added streaming channels to the guide there are so many more to scroll through, so that makes also makes it feel likely we're getting this feature.
Lastly, with the addition of the streaming channels to the guide I no longer have favorite channels separated out, leading to more scrolling still.
Hope I'm right and we're on our way to the 20th century
