Remotes

[RFT135]

At 79 (80 next week), I suffered through the days of "workout by channel selection".

Be sure that you organize the placement of your favorite apps so as to require the least amount of button pressing.  I keep YouTube TV in the upper left corner. 

It took some experimenting, but I now have a macro on my programmable remotes that will navigate from any app to YouTube TV.   The unwanted "On Now" or "Recommended" selections that appear at the top of the selection screen made it more difficult, but I've finally programmed around that.  Since all our other most used apps have dedicated IR commands, I have 6 buttons that go directly to those.

[Ja12262]

I always liked the simplicity of the Roku remote, and am actually kind of committed with my Roku TCL television. Just find it kind of chintzy of them to make them so static. Programmable remotes are about the same price as the Roku ones but seem to have more bang for the buck...did not want to go that route but if more buttons start to become useless, I might have to.

[atc98092]

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@Ja12262 wrote:

I always liked the simplicity of the Roku remote, and am actually kind of committed with my Roku TCL television. Just find it kind of chintzy of them to make them so static. Programmable remotes are about the same price as the Roku ones but seem to have more bang for the buck...did not want to go that route but if more buttons start to become useless, I might have to.

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Again, Roku is paid for those button placements. By contract they cannot allow them to be altered. Roku does offer a remote with a programmable button, but the static buttons still remain.