@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
….keep on rockin' 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
@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
2 months later
Hello @Giefebio11
Unfortunately, Swisscom only sells Box 21. It has voice control, but you still have to work with the FB. Hold the microphone button - speak - release the microphone button. You can find the box => [here](https://www.swisscom.ch/de/privatkunden/produkte/tv/details.html/swisscom-box-21-11047721?contractDuration=24&stch=pdp&ing=ptl-device- first&simplyDigital=true&journey=device-first&useCase=HARDWAREONLY)
There is also the IP2000, which has a built-in microphone and can also be used without an FB. They are still available on Ricardo, Tutti etc.
24 days later