Cutting the cord - remote control

UTfball68

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Preface: smart devices are smarter than me and NC4X4 is a plethora of knowledge.

I’m going YouTube tv and Netflix. I have no idea where the original factory remotes are, just have my supplied spectrum remotes. All tv’s are Samsung.

I found the manual toggles on the tv and can launch the ‘smart hub’ from the toggle...from there with the toggle I can use google just fine and can launch Netflix and amazon prime. What I don’t want to have to do is use the toggle any time I want to launch an app or change the channel.

Got the bright idea to download a remote control smart tv app to my phone (specifically SamRemote). The tv and phone are on the same wifi network.

What I can’t get to happen is my phone and tv to sync. When I try to use the phone control, it tells me to enter ‘the pairing code on my tv’...however, no pairing code shows up.

So 1) any idea what I’m doing wrong to not see a pairing code? And 2) any better universal remote or app suggestions?
 
shawn said:
Or forget all about the smart TV stuff and buy a Roku. If you have HDMI CEC enabled, the Roku will turn on the TV, change the inputs on your receiver, and control the receiver volume.
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Roku was actually the original plan until she said all she cared about was playing her yoga videos and kid shows. So I was trying to get that going, because I don’t care about tv until college football season. But might still go that way if that’s the best route.
 
Here's the one I have. Works great.
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What kind of phone do you have? How old or what model are your TVs?

My Android Pixel 2 works great with it, but the wife's iPhone 11 app is constantly dropping connection and having to reconnect.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Here's the one I have. Works great.
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What kind of phone do you have? How old or what model are your TVs?

My Android Pixel 2 works great with it, but the wife's iPhone 11 app is constantly dropping connection and having to reconnect.
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Not sure of exact modes offhand...but the tvs themselves are all less than 3 years old. The phone however, is an iPhone 6...so that may contribute to the connectivity issue.
 
UTfball68 said:
Not sure of exact modes offhand...but the tvs themselves are all less than 3 years old. The phone however, is an iPhone 6...so that may contribute to the connectivity issue.
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Yeah, I'd try with a more modern device.
 
shawn said:
Or forget all about the smart TV stuff and buy a Roku. If you have HDMI CEC enabled, the Roku will turn on the TV, change the inputs on your receiver, and control the receiver volume.
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This.
We use the TV remote only to turn it on, and thats only if too lazy to just press the button on the front.
Roku remote or a phone w/ Roku app for everything else. Hell we just got a replacement Roku remote (old one died after 4 years) and it has dedicated buttons for Hulu, Netflix, and Sling, the 3 things we use.
 
RatLabGuy said:
This.
We use the TV remote only to turn it on, and thats only if too lazy to just press the button on the front.
Roku remote or a phone w/ Roku app for everything else. Hell we just got a replacement Roku remote (old one died after 4 years) and it has dedicated buttons for Hulu, Netflix, and Sling, the 3 things we use.
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The Roku remote should turn on the TV. Either use the power button on the remote (may have to program the remote), or just hit the home button, and the Roku will wake the TV up.
 
Yup, Roku user here too. Not going back to streaming through the Smarty-dumb TV.
 
Hope Roku is better than a Fire Stick, ours will cut out 3 times a week minimum and have to reboot it. But I also have Comporium, the worst monopoly for cable and internet in the south. Internet drops out daily which I think is the problem for our fire stick, maybe just long enough that enough content isn't buffered.
 
shawn said:
The Roku remote should turn on the TV. Either use the power button on the remote (may have to program the remote), or just hit the home button, and the Roku will wake the TV up.
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We have several Rokus, only one remote has the power and volume buttons to control the TV. And the home button on our other remote doesn't wake up our older TV. Otherwise we love them.

Duane
 
shawn said:
Or forget all about the smart TV stuff and buy a Roku. If you have HDMI CEC enabled, the Roku will turn on the TV, change the inputs on your receiver, and control the receiver volume.
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Ditto. One simple remote and the kids don't risk effin' up the whole tv by hitting 100 buttons on the Samsung remote. Also, the roku is a better wifi receiver than the Samsung TV.
 
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