Big Blue Huddle

Oops, late the party. Looks like you have it all figured out.  I'll leave this here in case someone else can use it. 

Quote from: Ed Vette on June 06, 2023, 10:41:46 AMMy Apple TV powers on and has volume control but it doesn't shut the TV off. The other downside of the Roku is it's recharge is USB and her smart TV doesn't have one so it has to be plugged in. Also the HDMI cord is very short.

Whoa, if her Roku remote has USB recharging it almost certainly can control volume and on/off.  Does her remote have a power button at the top and a volume rocker on the side?  If so, try the procedure in my previous post.

Quote from: Bill Brown on June 04, 2023, 06:00:51 PMI have a Samsung smart TV, a Vizio TV and 2 others. Not sure of brands. I run  3 roku sticks and 1 roku box. We run any app that we have.

Bill

Quote from: Ed Vette on June 06, 2023, 10:03:00 AMI set up Roku express on Linda's mothers TV and it's less complicated now but still have to use the tv remote to adjust the volume and to shut the tv off. Is that how yours works too? I see various models on Amazon and it would have been better for her to have just one remote.

I can control on/off and volume on the tv from my Roku remote, although that might be true of all Roku remotes.  Try this:

1) go to the Roku setup screen

2) scroll down to Remotes & devices

3) click right, on Remotes

4) click right again, where your particular remote will be shown.  Mine is Voice Remote Pro

5) click right again near the bottom of the list is 'Set up remote for TV control'

I'm not sure which Roku remotes will show this.  But if your's does:

6) scroll down to 'Set up remote for TV control' and then scroll to the right for 'IR setup"

7) click on 'IR set-up and you get a screen asking you to confirm your tv brand (I think it tries to figure it out - it got mine immediately but I have one of the most popular brands, Samsung, so I don't know if it was the default or it figured it out.  But it also has a 'Change TV brand' choice you can clickmon if it doesn't have your brand as the default.

8) it then tells you to point your remote at the TV and goes through several screens asking you if you hear music playing.  After you are done with the screens it congratulates you and tells you that you can now control on/ff and volume with the Roku remote.

This probably looks very complicated but trust me, it is very intuitive once you find the starting point.  The key is step 4 and what remote you have.  Alas, the Roku can't be made to control the volume on a sound bar, just a TV

Hope this helps.

PS - I just did a little more research and the remote that comes with the basic Roku express cannot do this.  But if you have the Roku Express 4K+ it can.  I'm not sure if an upgraded remote ($19.99) will allow a basic Roku Express to control volume and on/off, but another solution would be to just get a Roku Express 4K+ ($29.99) which comes with the right remote to do it.

Quote from: Bill Brown on June 04, 2023, 01:25:49 PMI have a Samsung smart TV but I run everything through my roku device.

Bill

I have a smart tv and also eschew it's smartness and use a Roku.  A good analogy, for me, is the built in navigation system my car has.  I never use it because my car has Android Auto (and Apple Carplay for apple folks) and navigation in Google maps is far superior to the built in navigation.  Roku is superior to the built in 'smartnes', IMO, and the Roku remote can be configured to control the tv as well as the Roku.

Quote from: BluesCruz on May 28, 2023, 06:18:32 AMNever over reach your grasp

Counterpoint from the poet, Robert Browning:

QuoteAh, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,. Or what's a heaven for?

We had something like this in CA years ago, but the fires were much closer, so we got ash along with the smoke.  Cars made it look like it had been snowing because of the ash buil-dp.  Schools were closed for a week, and you could see the glow of the fires in the distance.  Fortunately we didn't have to evacuate.

1) Don't focus on the things you didn't get or didn't get to do.  Cherish what yo do have our did get to do.

2) Comparing yourself to others is the road to unhappiness.

The secret to a long and happy marriage is to never let it become a power struggle.

Quote from: Ed Vette on May 14, 2023, 08:42:27 AMEverywhere I go, the cashier now asks if I want the receipt. There must be a huge anticipated savings in receipt paper. Especially at CVS with their 3 yards of coupons. Was a law passed in NJ to ask if the customer wants the receipt?

At the grocery store I always say "No, unless someone is going to accuse me of stealing as I leave the store".

Father O'Malley rose from his bed one morning It was a fine spring day in his new mission parish. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside.
He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station.
The conversation went like this:
"Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?"
"And the best of the day te yerself. This is Father O'Malley at St. Ann's Catholic Church. There's a jackass lying dead in me front lawn and would ye be so kind as to send a couple o'yer lads to take care of the matter ?"
Sergeant Jones, considering himself to be quite a wit and recognizing the foreign accent, thought he would have a little fun with the Good Father, replied, "Well now Father, it was always my impression that you people took care of the last rites !"
There was dead silence on the line for a long moment.........
Father O'Malley then replied, "Aye, 'tis certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin first, which is the reason for me call.

A possibility I've mentioned before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKMQ3OnPq1o