![]() ![]() These are the only buttons I ended up using to control both my TV and my Apple TV ![]() It is kind of a bummer you can only use about 10 buttons out of maybe 50-60 on the remote, but once you get used to jumping to the TiVo button to wake your Apple TV or back out of menus, it starts to feel natural. Given the TiVo’s longer layout, you basically move around at the top of the remote (turn the TV on, adjust volume, move through menus) and then the middle of the remote to control playback. It was fantastic immediately because like any well-designed remote, I was back to familiar controls to play and pause video and it was easy enough to move around the Apple TV UI in it. In just a couple minutes I had a familiar remote back in my hand, hit the TiVo button at the top and started moving through my Apple TV. I mapped all those to the lower part of the remote, with the slow-mo TiVo button as stop, the arrow button with the vertical line as the skip ahead, the back 5 sec button for the skip back, and I used the thumbs up/down buttons for the next/last tracks. Go through the second set of options to map your play, pause, forward/back, skip ahead/skip behind, next track/last track. I used the TiVo button as the Apple TV Menu button, and then the top directional menu to move in four directions with the middle OK button as the Select. You’ll go through a series of screens to set up basic navigation. Go to Remotes and Devices in your Apple TV settings, then select the Learn Remote option in the next menu. Next, go through Learn Remote settings on your Apple TV Now, the TiVo remote could control my TV’s basic functions. The full instructions are here, but you hold down the TiVo button and the TV power button until the remote light goes solid, then enter 0999 to begin the remote code testing, with an option to cycle it until it successfully turns your TV off.įor my LG TV, the first test worked, and I saved it to the remote. Since there’s no TiVo screens to go through you’ll have to put it into a learning mode and cycle through codes built-in to the remote. First, program the TiVo remote to control your TV’s basic controlsīefore you do anything, get the power, volume and other basic TV functions working with the remote and your TV. The following are steps to copy my best setup. Once the remote arrived I set it up a few times in different configurations until I arrived at a point that worked best for me. You don’t have to get the Lux top-of-the-line TiVo remote (any TiVo remote should work) since only about 8 buttons will work with your Apple TV, but I liked the default backlighting and size and picked one up on Amazon for $49. A few weeks later I tweeted about a new set-top box being developed by TiVo, and how much I wanted one just to use that great peanut remote again, and how much I hated the Apple TV default remote when someone said you can just pair and program a TiVo remote to an Apple TV and get the best of both worlds. It all started with the story of a swiss company making a better Apple TV remote, and what a bummer when I learned you couldn’t get one in the US. ![]()
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