Remotes & Accessories

[ikjadoon]

Hi! This text is a bit of an ominous, yet vague warning on the Enhanced Remote support page:

Some Roku Enhanced Remotes incorporate both wireless and Infra-Red (IR) technologies to seamlessly control your Roku streaming player and aspects of your TV. Once you set up your Roku player and Roku Enhanced Remote, you can control volume and power on/off for select TV brands and models.

But it never lists what these compatible brands and models are! I just got off chat with Roku Support and "Chrissy" said they didn't know (well, then...). Does anyone know? I'm looking to see if it will work on a Pioneer PRO-111FD Elite (circa 2013). The TV's own remote can control other devices via codes, but can the TV itself be controlled by Roku's Enhanced Remote? Has anyone tried with 2013 Pioneer plasmas? No sound system, no receiver: just literally the TV on and TV volume. 

Thank you all in advance; this forum is a godsend. 

[Basil]

What Roku are you talking about? You see, there have been different remotes called "enhanced remote" over the years. The remote with the Roku 3, for instance, doesn't control TV. The one that came with the Premiere doesn't either. But the one that came with the new Ultra seems to.

https://www.roku.com/accessories/remotes

The page you linked tells how to test it. But, since you haven't done that, are we to assume you don't have an enhanced remote? Or did you try and the results didn't show anything?

By the way, it only offers 8 codes for my TV, and doesn't work. Of course, I'm using a sound system and not the output of the TV speakers, so that might be the issue.

[Sgooter]

Per Roku, the Roku Ultra 4660 (2017) includes the newest Enhanced Remote with Power and Volume buttons to control a TV.
The Roku Ultra 4640 (2016) is packaged with a different Enhanced Remote, which is unable to control a TV.
Roku should not have labeled/designated both models as Ultras because they're different in a couple of ways. Would have been better to call the newest one Ultra 2.

[MrDifficult]

Theoretically, any TV that is connected via HDMI and supports CEC.  For yours, it sounds like it utilizes a universal remote of some sort (programmable IR), so maybe no go.

[beq]

The new Roku remotes under OS 8 seem to default to using IR to control TV power/volume, which does have much broader TV compatibility than HDMI CEC support.  But I too am curious who's IR code database Roku is using?

P.S.  Roku's Secret Platform Screen lets you toggle between IR vs CEC (or to query AVR/soundbar vs TV)...

[ikjadoon]

I apologize I missed these replies. Somehow I wasn’t subscribed to the thread automatically.

Yes, I bought the 4660X. Exactly; kind of a land mine to avoid the older one.

Ah, not a universal remote. But just a fancy TV remote. It’s the stock remote, but it can control a few other things. But probably not a Roku

I ended up testing it. I believe my PRO-111FD does have HDMI CEC.

I was going to return it if it didn’t work, but it did! I can confirm that it works with mine and thus probably most 2013 Pioneer plasmas will work. Thank you to everyone for your replies. I apologize for the delay

[Doppelganger]

I'd love to know as well if the list of compatible TVs exists for using with the newer enhanced remotes.
I'm considering buying the new 4k streaming stick+ and want to know if it'll work with the LeEco brand tv I have in my bedroom.
I love the Roku included controls for power/vol since that is all I need from it to be able to use the Roku remote exclusively.
Any help is appreciated.

[ikjadoon]

Roku support never got back to me, unfortunately. I think it's a sad case of needing to buy & test individually if they've not covered our models since they don't seem to have a general scheme.

[Crakarjack]

1. I can’t get my ultra enhanced remote to pair with my 2017 M series Vizio tv. Roku customer service says it won’t work with that model tv, but he seemed to be guessing. I have tried repeatedly to find a list, but to no avail. I was pissed off because this particular tv was sold in great quantities by Costco, and it made no sense that such a new and popular tv was not compatible with Roku’s top of the line equipment. I wonder if this is happening to other “ budget” tv’s, as a way for roku to gain market share for their roku tv’s?

[Tivoburkee]

Vizio use the same code set that half of the  roku tv brands use. With new batteries in the remote, have ultra visible to roku remote just during programming, later you mount it out of sight, re-pair the remote to the ultra, when done go to program tv, tell it you have LG, let it cycle through the codes.