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All of our Swisscom TV boxes can be used with the corresponding infrared receiver and a universal infrared remote control. The biggest challenge is programming the universal remote control. Some manufacturers offer databases where the commands for the Swisscom TV boxes are already integrated. If you still have a Swisscom TV 1.0 remote control, you can also use it to learn the commands. Radio/TV specialist dealers can usually help here, as Swisscom also issues the infrared commands upon request.
USB version works with all Swisscom TV boxes [HD (IP1200), UHD (IP1400), Swisscom Box (IP2000), Swisscom Box 21 (IP1800)] Swisscom Shop USB-IR
2.5mm Jack version only works with the UHD Box (IP1400) and the Swisscom Box (IP2000) [Swisscom Shop Jack-IR](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/produkte/tv/details.html/ uhd-accessories-kit-10240233?payOption=ONE_TIME)
It is important to note that the universal remote control has a control pad, an OK button, a home button and a back button. If you don’t have these buttons, you may not be able to go any further or back in the menu. In other words, you can no longer navigate and have to restart the box or use the original Bluetooth remote control.
@FabioF wrote:
… It is important to note that the universal remote control has a control pad, an OK button, a home button and a back button. If you don’t have these buttons, you may not be able to go any further or back in the menu…
This thread asked about remote controls with large buttons.
Reduced remote controls such as the Doro HandleEasy 321rc, or SeKi Easy and SeKi Grande are ideal for “linear” TV consumption via the Swisscom TV boxes:
TV and Swisscom box on/off,
Loud / Quiet,
Zapping programs (program selection for Seki Grande).
I don’t see any danger of getting stuck on the sidelines.
Walter
As an addition from my side:
When it comes to learning infrared codes, you should probably also find the document “Using the infrared universal remote control” under “Instructions (PDF)”. [https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/geraet/blue-tv/fernbedienung.html#Setup\_and\_use](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/hilfe/ geraet/blue-tv/fernbedienung.html#Einrichten_und_nutzen) can help.
Liebe Grüsse / Salut et à bientôt / Ciao e a presto / Cheers, see you soon!
ThomasS
@Walter_Wp wrote:
@FabioF wrote:
… It is important to note that the universal remote control has a control pad, an OK button, a home button and a back button. If you don’t have these buttons, you may not be able to go any further or back in the menu…
This thread asked about remote controls with large buttons.
Reduced remote controls such as the Doro HandleEasy 321rc, or SeKi Easy and SeKi Grande are ideal for “linear” TV consumption via the Swisscom TV boxes:
TV and Swisscom box on/off,
Loud / Quiet,
Zapping programs (program selection for Seki Grande).I don’t see any danger of getting stuck offside.
Walter
@Walter_Wp The question is whether you want to use too white remote controls? For example, I did a few tests with a Seki Grande and noticed immediately after starting the TV box that you couldn’t select anything on the “home screen” or navigate. Since the Swisscom TV boxes start in the “home screen” this is a problem. As I understand the question, you only want to use a remote control and in my opinion that doesn’t work. A reduced RC already works for watching and zapping linear TV, but there are a number of user scenarios where you can’t get any further with such a remote control and you then have to resort to the original remote control again.
@FabioF wrote:
… For example, I did a few tests with a Seki Grande and noticed immediately after starting the TV box that you couldn’t select anything on the “home screen” and couldn’t navigate. Since the Swisscom TV boxes start in the “home screen” this is a problem….
In the TV-Box menu you can specify under “Display” that the TV always starts with the last program you watched instead of the home screen: Exactly what I require for “linear” TV consumption (I can only hope that this option does not suddenly disappear the next time the box is upgraded).
@FabioF wrote:
… A reduced RC already works for watching and zapping linear TV, but there are a number of user scenarios where you can’t get any further with such a remote control and you then have to resort to the original remote control again….
I’ll stick with it: I don’t see any danger of getting stuck on the sidelines when watching “linear” TV with the reduced remote controls mentioned above.
Also: By simply switching it off and on using the remote control, I always come back to “linear” television if the home screen option for the restart has not been selected.
Walter
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@Giefebio11 No TV provider has such remote controls, or do you know a provider? Other IPTV or TV boxes also have their own remote controls, but they do not have larger buttons and are usually even more complicated to use.
The solution is to buy a remote control (with large buttons) that you can learn. You’ll have to ask Google if it exists!
I know many seniors who get along very well with the standard FB.
Nevertheless, it would be very welcome if Swisscom offered an FB with extra large buttons as an option.
“The others don’t have it so Swisscom doesn’t need to offer it” is a very weak argument. Precisely because the others don’t have it, Swisscom could differentiate itself from the others.
7 months later
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@Senior89 wrote:
… I have a Seki Easy plus. I want to transfer the commands on, off, volume and program up and down. I can easily get the Samsung remote control on there, but the Swisscom FB doesn’t work…
If I understand correctly, then you have successfully “learned” the infrared TV commands from the Samsung remote control to the Seki remote control. The Seki-FB now sends the “trained” TV commands to the TV as infrared signals.
Because the Swisscom remote control sends Bluetooth signals to the TV-Box, you cannot use this FB to “train” the Seki remote control, which only works with infrared signals. See also posts 2 and 24.
In order for the Swisscom TV-Box to receive the infrared commands from the Seki remote control, you need to get an IR dongle / IR receiver, which you then plug into your TV-Box. I recommend the USB version: >Infrared receiver, which for **all TV boxes ** fits, see also post 10 above.
If the TV-Box can receive the infrared commands from the Seki remote control via the dongle, then you also need a “master remote control” in order to “train” the specified infrared commands to the Seki remote control:
If you can find a black (infrared) remote control from the first generation of Swisscom TV (no longer in service), then that is an easy-to-use “master remote control”. You can use the dongle to check whether the master is (still) working.
Alternatively, you can get a Oneforall URC 6820 Zapper+ remote control and then program it as a “master remote control” for the Swisscom TV-Box:
User manual, setting up the remote control, C - setting up with code, input 2401.
The Zapper+ buttons are now programmed as the master remote control for the Swisscom TV-Box. Restriction: The Zapper+ does not have a teletext button.
Walter