Sticks are usually behind TVs so they do RF remotes only. Box models (express etc.) can work with IR or RF remotes. RF reports are paired. IR remotes run whatever can see their light.
The remote wouldn't control your tv by RF directly. The tv would have to have RF circuitry in it to do that. Only Roku tv's have that. As I wrote its controlling the it by hdmi-cec, the commands are strictly roku commands, that whats picking up the commands. Which initiates a cec signal from the roku to only the tv its connected to, no other. You can prove this by justing unpugging the roku from the tv, you can leave it being powered it doesn't matter, if it was controlling your tv by IR it would still work with it unplugged, but if its cec I assume it would no longer control the tv.
I think you are completely missing my question. I don't care about the TV's. What I have are older, dumb TV's. Nor do I care about infrared control pulses telling them what to do, or HDMI devices talking to them.
I care about having to two Roku devices near each other... but in different rooms.
If Room A, having a Roku unit A, with a remote control for unit A, starts changing the app, changing shows, changing whatever. What stops the Roku in Room B from reacting to those RF commands...
Strega says they are paired. So that sounds like is alleviates my concern.
(I don't recall pairing when I got the unit a year ago - maybe it came that way, maybe I forgot. Doesn't matter now.)
I wrote in my first post that wifi remotes only pair to one roku at a time, no chance of it controlling two roku at once. And in your first post your only question was that roku controlling the tv power from another room was usual? I have then gave you the reasons why. BYE
scotty2541, your old Roku probably used an IR remote that doesn't require pairing and will control any (non-stick) Roku device within its line of sight. All Roku sticks use an RF remote that does require pairing and a remote can only be paired to one device at a time, so there's no way it can interfere with another Roku device. No stick responds to an IR remote. Most of the Roku devices available now come with RF remotes.
I hope that clears it up. :smileyhappy:
