F101-ATVRM Replacement Button Remote for Apple TV | Infrared Connectivity | 2 AAA Batteries Included

“Function101” is ultra-functional101. I’d give this ATV remote a galaxy of stars: 10? 20? 1/0? I’ve plowed through the standard Apple TV remotes for far too long: Slick, swank, cute, and user-non-friendly and anti-intuitive. Navigating became a test of my impatient non-patience. Example: The Apple remotes’ “slides”(?) = PITA. So, when I read a review for the “Function 1” gun … I ordered one from “Amazon” … and I was/I am quite pleased. All of the “Function101’s” activities are intuitive, e.g., selecting an action is a push on the “OK” button. Screen “Up” is up, volume increase is “+”, etc. As one would hope and expect. Pick ‘er up n use it. I spoke to “Mike” at Tech Support … his verbal directions were succinct, step-by-step, detailed, professional, patient, easy to follow … AND correct. And he actually returned my Sunday’s rambling voice mail. Added points. Alert the media! The “bottom” bottom line is: Get one, - it’s reasonably priced - and you shou!d like it. “outdoors1016”’s written tutorial is your visual guide! … as are the following ones. Lotsa useful input.

This remote is so much better than the original if you did not like the slide area which was never accurate when attempting to accomplish your choice. This remote offers well place buttons and does everything the previous remote did. Someone stated that it does not have a button to choose your different app’s you added in Apple TV, like YouTube TV, Netflix, Hulu, etc. that is not accurate. You simply hit the menu button until your apps all appear just like the original remote and choose the apps you want to watch. Setting up the sound bar or TV was very easy, but you do need to watch your sound bar or TV during the process to see a reaction on the TV or sound bar that lets you know they are synced. To set up your Sound Bar, do the following: • Push “Menu” and “OK” until red light comes on at the top of remote. • Hit the “Arrow Down” button below “OK” every 3 seconds until your sound bar lights up or flashes, then stop and press “OK” button again and your remote works perfectly with your sound bar. I have an old Yamaha sound bar and it synced perfectly. I needed to push the button 30 or 40 times until the sound bar lights came on and make sure your sound bar is on before you start the process. Instructions said that there are approximately 120 sound bar choices you can go through, so your sound bar should be programmed into the remote To set up your TV, do the following: • Push “Menu” and “OK” until red light comes on at the top of remote. • Hit the “Arrow Down” button below the “P” button every 3 seconds until your TV shows a menu item pops up like the volume line on which show your volume level on your TV, then stop and press “OK” button and your remote should work with your TV. I have a new LG TV and it synced perfectly after only hitting the down arrow a couple of times. You need to make sure the red light is on during the hitting of the down button. Again, this is done by pushing the Menu and OK buttons at the same time until the red light comes on. Give 2 or 3 seconds between each push of the button, but the TV or Sound Bar does seem to react immediately when synced. As you are going through the repeat hitting of the down buttons for both sound bar and TV syncing with your remote, be patient and do not feel like nothing is going on because the remote will not show anything letting you know it synced, but the TV or Sound Bar will give you a signal like additional lights coming on or blinking on our sound bar or a pop up on your TV that just appears after you hit the right sync choice for you TV when hitting the down button under the “P”. The only thing I would like to see added to this remote is back lighting for night us, but for the money you won’t find a better replacement. I highly recommend this remote to replace the not so friendly Apple remote that came with your Apple HD TV.

I purchased this remote to replace the difficult to use and functionally limited remote that came with my Apple TV streaming device.(Apple what were you thinking??) After using this new device for a month or so, I have two critical comments. First, the functions on the remote should be lit. I use the remote with my bedroom TV and it is a challenge to navigate the buttons in the dark. You must navigate by feel and memory. Second, the instructions are step-by-step and well-organized, but not necessarily completely clear to the new user as to the pairing process. Specifically, it is important to tell users that they must laboriously click through the set-up mode until they happen on their specific TV so the remote unit can pair with the user's TV. I understand that there are over 100 potential TVs that can be paired. Your TV might be number 1, or number 100, or any number in between, but you won't know which because there is no visual listing on the TV screen. So, you must click through as many iterations as needed until you get a signal that your TV is paired with your new remote. This can take a while to accomplish and it is a bit like shooting in the dark. Now for the good comments. The remote is vastly better than the Apple remote. It has all the functions you'll need to enjoy watching your TV, switching between channels, stopping, starting, pausing, advancing, muting, and controlling the volume. Once paired, it will work well and you'll be happy (unless, of course, your TV is in a dark room).

I bought this remote to use in place of the Apple TV+ 4K "Siri" remote for one major reason. The stupid touch-sensitive "track pad" Select/OK button on the Apple remote. Almost every time I tried to use the thing, I would get multiple unwanted item changes in the on-screen response, leaving me with the need to have to "go back" one or more items in the menu before hitting Select! (Which the Select would often once again move the highlight "off target" if the downward press was not DEAD STRAIGHT downward!) FRUSTRATING beyond belief. What were you thinking, Apple? This Function 101 (Infrared model) was the perfect option to replace the Apple remote. Added bonuses? It worked first time - right out of the box. Virtually NO SETUP was needed. So far (I'm only a couple weeks into owning it) the Function 101 (Infrared) had been working fine for me. (I've never been one to use the Siri functions on any of my Apple devices, so the lack of speech control is/was not a deal breaker.)

Does not work with any AppleTV, I've tried on multiple devices unsuccessfully. This is for the IR version.

It was supposed to work “out of the box”. It did not and I spent a couple of hours following website FAQs with no effect. I returned it. I was initially notified that I was only being refunded £4.05 for a device which cost £29. This would have infringed my UK consumer “distance selling rights”. I have now received a refund of £25.92 so accept that this was probably just an administrative error.

A disappointing device in our case. Gave up after hours of trying.