Remotes for uidroid

[bgowland]

Oddly enough I've just discovered the remote from my Toshiba TV might be my best choice. I'd never worked out how this worked with my TY but it had to be BT or WiFi as I don't have to point directly towards the TV.

I enabled BT on my generic Android TV box and sure enough the TV remote controls it. It's a nice familiar remote so I think I'll stick with it. I'd bought a G20S Pro Plus to try out - nice remote but the Tosh one adds a few things. If I select Netflix  or Prime it switches back to the TV and the apps on that.

Cheers,
Brian

[mvallevand]

The trouble with Bluetooth remotes are they can't typically be connected to two devices so you might lose connection to the TV. If not you are quite lucky.

Martin

[bgowland]

I haven't tried everything but here's what I found out...

TV and Android off (standby) I use the standby button on the TV remote and the TV wakes up and behaves normally with the remote.

Press  the standby on the basic IR remote which came with the Android box - TV automatically switches to the HDMI input for the box. Also a TV popup OSD message comes up saying something like "The remote will now control the device connected to this HDMI port. Long press 0 to return control to TV" At this point DPAD, num keys,  ff/rw, play, stop and pause all control the android box When I use the DPAD to select Ui Droid, the same keys work fine with npvr.

Press the volume keys on the remote cause a TV popup OSD to control the TV volume. Press the SRC button allows me to select other TV ports (i.e., HDMI) and selecting another device the remote reverts to TV and I need to use the other device's remote (Tivo STB or Bluray player for example).

Pressing Prime or Netflix on remote returns to TV but in "smart" mode and uses the TV's Prime / Netflix apps.

So it seems I got lucky discovering this. I'll send the G20S back as it doesn't offer anything more that I need.

Cheers,
Brian